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I received a direct marketing USB stick on the mail the other day. As soon as I inserted it into my test-Mac - it opened Safari and wrote in the address of a website it wanted to visit. It had the exact same behaviour on my test PC.
Now, I was under the assumption that OSX didn't have an autorun feature. I'm running 10.10.3 and I can't even find the device under disk utility.
Any ideas on how they are doing this? The only thing I can think of is that it's piggybacking on a helper service, but I've never used any products from this company before.
How can I investigate the contents of the USB if I can't find it on my mac?
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There is no autorun in OSX anymore. Show activity on this post. You can't set an application to autorun for security reasons. However you can set a Finder window to auto open on insert.
There are no viruses in the wild that can infect macOS. The autorun. inf file is for starting whatever software that was included with the LaCie. And it's for Windows only. You can erase that file and anything else that was on the LaCie before using it for your Time Machine backup.
Right-click on the app and hover over Options in the menu. Apps that are set to open automatically will have a check mark next to Open at Login. Click that option to uncheck it and disable it from opening.
I can't even find the device under disk utility.
That is beacause it is not a disk device, but a USB HID "keyboard". The stick sends the key codes that will open the website automatically.
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