I prefer the more radical surgery method:

Find and remove all copies of wscript.exe from your system.

No more windoze scripting, no more windoze-scripting-based viruses.

Personally, the only thing I have ever encountered that utilized windoze
scripting has been viruses.  I removed wscript.exe from my computer a year
ago, and have yet to encounter anything useful that doesn't work.

In my opinion, scripting was a very bad idea in the first place, and
removing it is one way of improving windoze.  Now if we could just identify
and remove all the other useless, ill-conceived, bug-enhancing features, we
might just strip windoze down to a reasonable and reliable operating system.

Hint to M$:  I just might be willing to pay MORE for a version of windoze
with LOTS LESS features and therefor less bugs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Stephens [mailto:Scott2@MEDIAONE.NET]
> Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 11:50 AM
> To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OT]: Turning off Micro$oft Outlook's Virus Support
> 'Features"
>
>
> I got a spam last night that automagicaly sent me to a web
> page, and even
> spawned an additional browser window to add insult to injury.
> Having had
> enough, I went to www.google.com and typed "microsoft outlook script
> disable" and found this in hit #7
>
> "
> From: Ben H. (ben*no s p a m*@apl.washington.edu)
> Subject: Re: Disabling vbs attachments in Outlook Express
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.outlookexpress
> View complete thread (11 articles)
> Date: 2000/05/05
> ...
> Outlook Express 5.0:
>   1.. Start Outlook Expess
>   2.. Click on the Tools in the main menu, and select "Options" at the
> bottom.  This brings up the "Options" window.
>   3.. In the Options window, press the "Security" tab.
>   4.. There are two panes within the Security window:  the top is
> "Security Zones" and has two options:
>     1.. Internet Zone
>     2.. Secure Zone
>   5.. Click the button next to Restricted Sites Zone.
>
> If you happen to try to open an attachment that turns out to be a worm
> like the "I Love You" worm, you will now get a warning that you are
> trying to run a script, and you can click CANCEL to prevent it from
> running.
>
> However, I'd recommend doing one more thing that will simply
> disable the
> script's presence and threat entirely!
>
> Increase the security of your Restricted Sites Zone so that it ignores
> Visual Basic Scripts (all e-mail attachments with problems are either
> executable programs (i.s. filename.exe) or a Visual Basic Script (i.e.
> filename.vbs).  The problem is that the Visual Basic script can be
> hidden inside a regular e-mail attachment, or the filename
> extension may
> be hidden, so additional precautions should be taken.  Here's how!
>
>   1.. Start Internet Explorer
>   2.. Click on the Tools menu item and select Internet
> Options to bring
> up the Internet Options window
>   3.. Click on the Security tab
>   4.. Click on the red icon labelled Restricted Sites
>   5.. Press the Custom Level button at the bottom.  This brings up a
> window with various settings in it.
>   6.. Scroll down until you see the heading called "Scripting".
>   7.. If subheadings are not visible right under it (i.e. Active
> Scripting, Allow paste operations via script, Scripting of Java
> applets..) then just double click on Scripting to make the subheadings
> appear
>   8.. When you see the entry called Active Scripting, press
> the Disable
> setting (the settings are right under it, labelled Disable,
> Enable, and
> Prompt).
>   9.. Press OK at the bottom
>   10.. Press OK in the Internet Options window
>
> If you've done both these things correctly, you will not be
> able to get
> infected by this worm nor any other copycat worm since they requires
> scripts to be run in order to do damage, and you've
> completely disabled
> that feature.  Believe me, turning it off will not change your life
> much, Microsoft only has it turned out because it makes money selling
> Visual Basic compilers.
> "
>
> Don'cha think M$ knows better than to permit malicious code
> from running on
> a computer? I swear M$ engineers must have tried every way to
> back up and
> re-install software, and in each case found some clever
> little way to force
> you to re-install using their program disk. I use to use a
> CVF and found
> they plugged that 'hole' by killing doublspace/drivespace in FAT 32.
>
> One day one of their employees, or perhaps a 'patriotic' FBI
> agent is going
> to sell the list of all the security holes the NSA has paid
> Micro$oft to put
> into their software to an enemy. Then once again our
> government and industry
> will learn how treachery often backfires.
>
> Scott
>
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