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On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:41:24 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote: "Shadow" wrote | msgbox "Here's a nasty one!", 16, "Error message" | | "Windows Scripting Host disabled on this machine" | I'm surprised. You seem to be very knowledgeable, and WSH is a very handy tool. I have 2 reg files. One turns it on, one turns it off. The default is off. Nasty little things, vbs scripts. Or useful. I always read them first before running them. In any case, the 16 causes a message that shows an error message, with a red circle containing a white X. There are different types of messages: plain, Information with a small i, question mark, exclamation and error. The default error sound makes me jump. For that reason, whenever I need to show a message I use information: Msgbox "message here", 64 It produces a gentle ding sound. I also do not use speakers. I sometimes plug in my headphones to play a game or watch a movie. []'s But on my main machine I don't actually have any WAVs in the media folder. There are not even any options in the Sounds applet. -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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On 15/12/2018 23:06, Shadow wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2018 17:41:24 -0500, "Mayayana" wrote: "Shadow" wrote | msgbox "Here's a nasty one!", 16, "Error message" | | "Windows Scripting Host disabled on this machine" | I'm surprised. You seem to be very knowledgeable, and WSH is a very handy tool. I have 2 reg files. One turns it on, one turns it off. The default is off. Nasty little things, vbs scripts. Or useful. I always read them first before running them. Don't try and 'pull the wool' over the eyes of Mayayana, Shadow. It was he/she who once helped me find the hidden script on a web page - quite some time ago now. You may remember the case - I got the website taken down eventually and have forever been grateful (and respectful) to Mayayana. :-) -- Regards, David B. |
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"Shadow" wrote
| I have 2 reg files. One turns it on, one turns it off. The | default is off. Nasty little things, vbs scripts. Or useful. I always | read them first before running them. | | VBS got a bad reputation because of the Melissa "virus" way back when. As I recall, an office worker wrote a VBS as a joke but it ended up spreading and scaring the daylights out of the business world. He got arrested. After that people thought VBS was malware. But no one thought to recognize that exe, bat, reg, inf, js, and of course HTML, can all be equally powerful. It was IT people, who don't typically know a lot about Windows, who then went berserk and did things like removing scrrun.dll and other WSH files. These days, the big risk is PowerShell. .ps or .ps1, I think. I don't have that installed because I'm on XP, so I don't have to... and I'm not curious about using it... and it gets a lot of attacks. PS is something like DOS for .Net, designed to seduce Linux admins who are used to using DOS-esque applets that each represent a ingle command. It's hard to think of a worse, uglier idea than PoweShell. But it's become popular with admins who think it's esoteric to use command line. And it can certainly be used to do some damage. So it's also become a target. |
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