Prompted by the spread of the agent.btz worm, last month the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration issued rules prohibiting the use of removable media devices like USB sticks.

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The malicious software "agent.btz, " though aptly-named for a narrative about international espionage, is likely one of many flavors of a particular category of malware that automatically (and silently) executes when removable media is inserted into a Windows machine.

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