Re: The Million Dollar Solution

[ke6jqh () ARRL NET (Rob Perry)]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it be just as effective to
edit the file type properties under Folder Options in a Windows system?

Rob

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From: "Matthew Harmon" <mharmon () PLAYBACKMEDIA COM>
To: <VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:33 PM
Subject: The Million Dollar Solution

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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:
>
> 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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