FLASH: Autorun on a Mac

[Gahlord Dewald]

You can make autorun work by having it "pop open" on the CD. However, most Mac

users have autorun disabled due to the autostart worm a few years back (it

exploited the autorun feature to start up a fairly nasty little virus that

erased files with the .xls and .doc name extensions across networks; oddly

enough, this hurt their PC counterparts as much or more than the mac users

themselves; it managed to ship on some installer CDs, most notably CorelDraw).

In fact, if they don't have this turned off they really should have their head

examined. 


Best thing to do for your mac users is have the file in an obvious place with an

obvious name. They're used to this and, if they remember the worm, will be

freaked out if your app fires up automatically (i.e. they'll quit your app,

change their control panel setting, and then fire up your app again thus slowing

what you wanted to speed up, unless you're distributing a new and clever worm

;-) ). I hope this gives you enough ammo to explain to your client. Feel free to

email me if you need a different explanation.


g



Gahlord Dewald

Weeds Media Consortium

gahlordweedsmedia [dot] com

http://www.weedsmedia.com




flasher is generously supported by...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 Get the last 100 messages from the flasher list NOW

    http://www.chinwag.com/flasher/last100.shtml


 Flash books http://www.chinwag.com/flasher/books.shtml

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

To unsubscribe or change your list settings go to

http://www.chinwag.com/flasher or email

helpchinwag [dot] com