Autoplay must be disabled for all drives.

From Windows 8 Security Technical Implementation Guide

Part of Disable Media Autoplay

Associated with IA controls: ECSC-1

SV-48065r1_rule Autoplay must be disabled for all drives.

Vulnerability discussion

Allowing autoplay to execute may introduce malicious code to a system. Autoplay begins reading from a drive as soon as you insert media in the drive. As a result, the setup file of programs or music on audio media may start. By default, autoplay is disabled on removable drives, such as the floppy disk drive (but not the CD-ROM drive) and on network drives. If you enable this policy, you can also disable autoplay on all drives.

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Configure the policy value for Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> AutoPlay Policies -> "Turn off AutoPlay" to "Enabled:All Drives".

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