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Old December 16th 18, 12:06 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Shadow
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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.

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  #17  
Old December 16th 18, 12:21 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
David B.[_10_]
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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. :-)

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Old December 16th 18, 02:28 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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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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