Daily Cup of Tech

In my previous post, a user commented that it would be cool to be able to launch a web page from an autorun.inf file.  So, I took it upon myself to do just that.  I wrote a little program that will do just that!

Download WebLaunch and save it on the root of your USB drive.  Then, create an autorun.inf file on the root of your drive with the following contents:

[autorun]
open=WebLaunch http://www.dailycupoftech.com
action=Open Website

You can set the http://www.dailycupoftech.com portion to any website you want and you can tweak the autorun.inf file to be as funky as you wish.

There you go, Shoban!

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8 Responses to “Launch Website from USB Autorun.inf”

1. Rob O. Says:
   November 11th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

   I like to build “mixtape” CDs for friends & my brother and I always do this same sort of trick to automatically launch my website when they fire up one of the discs in a PC.

2. Plasma2002 Says:
   November 12th, 2008 at 12:11 am

   I had this problem before… I figured out how to do it without using a third part application.

   Instead of using Weblaunch, you can use the built-in Windows command of ’start’.

   Example:
   [autorun]
   open=start http://www.dailycupoftech.com
   action=Open Website

3. Shoban Says:
   November 12th, 2008 at 1:56 am

   That was me thanks for the tip

4. Nick Burns Says:
   November 12th, 2008 at 9:08 am

   Doesn’t this command accomplish the same thing:
   shellexecute=http://www.DailyCupOfTech.com

5. JT Says:
   November 12th, 2008 at 11:14 am

   Or call iexplore.exe. What prompted compiling a new exe to do the same thing?

6. miT Says:
   November 13th, 2008 at 10:02 pm

   Did you use UPX to package an existing trojan virus?

   File: weblaunch.exe
   Status: INFECTED/MALWARE
   MD5: 52959c754d861cbeddc7fd86c780eea3
   Packers detected: PE_PATCH.UPX, UPX

   Scan taken on 14 Nov 2008 03:59:40 (GMT)
   A-Squared Found Virus.Trojan.Win32.Autoit.dt!IK
   AntiVir Found nothing
   ArcaVir Found nothing
   Avast Found nothing
   AVG Antivirus Found nothing
   BitDefender Found nothing
   ClamAV Found nothing
   CPsecure Found nothing
   Dr.Web Found nothing
   F-Prot Antivirus Found nothing
   F-Secure Anti-Virus Found nothing
   G DATA Found nothing
   Ikarus Found Virus.Trojan.Win32.Autoit.dt
   Kaspersky Anti-Virus Found nothing
   NOD32 Found nothing
   Norman Virus Control Found nothing
   Panda Antivirus Found nothing
   Sophos Antivirus Found nothing
   VirusBuster Found nothing
   VBA32 Found nothing

   (taken from http://virusscan.jotti.org/)

7. Tim Fehlman Says:
   November 14th, 2008 at 10:57 am

   Virus scanners have been falsely detecting AutoIt compiled programs as viruses for years (see http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=24112).

   As you wrote, 90% (18/20) of the anti-virus software packages found nothing because their signature detectors have been updated to discriminate between actual viruses and programs just written with AutoIt.

   Tim

8. Joey Says:
   December 12th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

   You could install firefox portable on the portable drive and call it by its folder name and launch the website like this:

   /…../firefox.exe http://www.website.com

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