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It seems like they could be rendered ineffective by simply disabling auto run and forcing removable drives to mount noexec.
This should be the default on all PCs.
Does any Linux distro have autorun? Because Windows isn't really an OS anyway.
Yes, Linux has autorun and some distros have it enabled by default.