Re: The Million Dollar Solution

[dufresne () WINTERNET COM (Ron DuFresne)]

M$ then advises it is an all or nothing deal, yes?

Thanks,

Ron DuFresne

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Matthew Harmon wrote:

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> Everyone has been scrambling east and west, north and south trying to
> find the answer to these VBS viruses, the answer is not eMail
> filtering, it's not better firewalls, or failing members of the FBI
> community.
>
> It is a file called WScript.Exe
>
> A batch (.BAT) file with these two lines will deal with this problem:
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> ren %SystemRoot%\system32\wscript.exe wscript.sav
> ren c:\windows\wscript.exe wscript.sav
>
> If you get rid of this engine, then all Visual Basic Scripts cannot be
> run.
>
> More information can be found about this file on the Microsoft
> Knowledge Base.
>
> I haven't seen this on BugTraq or Vuln-Dev yet, hope it helps you out!
>
> Sincerely,
> The Network Support Team of Playback Media, Inc.
> Brent E. Wood, Mark Michini, Brian J. Foley, and Matthew J. Harmon
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