About Us

Autorun Eater

Welcome to Old McDonald’s Farm, home of Autorun Eater.

Old McDonald is a pseudonym I chose for myself partly due to the fact that I’m an Animal Science student in some university. You’ll also notice that Autorun Eater uses the goat to represent the application.

Programming is not my field but more of a hobby.  Autorun Eater was born due to the increase of malwares using the ‘autorun.inf’ method to infect users unknowingly be it from flash drives, removable hard disks or any other removable storage device.

When a device is infected with a malware and an ‘autorun.inf’ file is dropped, the shell menu is normally modified to execute the malware whenever the unsuspecting user accesses the infected drive.

Autorun Eater will warn you and remove any suspicious ‘autorun.inf’ files(based on user decision/settings) so that the malware is not executed while accessing the infected drive.  There are also certain cases whereby the malware has been removed by an antivirus but the ‘autorun.inf’ file remains.  This will cause the drive to be inaccessible through the conventional method(double-click).  Autorun Eater will also remove it if necessary so that you can access the drive as usual.

Prevention is always better than cure, right?

Key features of Autorun Eater:

  • Prevent malware infection through removable storage devices(pendrives, portable hard disk, etc)
  • Install and forget, Autorun Eater monitors all drives(except A:, B:, and CD/DVD drives) in real time!
  • Manually scan drives A: and B: if you have access to either one or both(eg. Floppy)
  • Pause at any time
  • Deleted suspicious ‘autorun.inf’ file(s) are auto-backup’ed
  • Events are logged for future reference
  • Fix 3 common critical registry changes made by malwares

On top of that, Autorun Eater is a freeware and will always be one. We will never charge a single cent for you to use it. You can donate if you enjoy using Autorun Eater but it is purely voluntary – not donating does not mean you get a crippled Autorun Eater.

If you’re interested to use Autorun Eater, you can visit our download pages for the latest versions and updates.  Any suggestion(s) or bug(s) can be sent to us using our contact form, or manually emailed to:

Till then, enjoy!

Old McDonald

April 20th, 2009