Re: The Million Dollar Solution

[oysteivi () TIHLDE ORG (Oystein Viggen)]

Jeremy Speer spake thus:

> On one final note, why could we not just create a loader for wscript.exe
> that just bings up a popup window that shows that some script is running.
> Would you like it to continue? If you are not expecting the script, then
> you would click "***NO***". This would at least prevent anyone from having
> it run without them knowing. They would at least know that something is
> going on.

There is of course the small matter of all those windows users who will
just blindly click "Yes" on anything they aren't 100% sure that they don't
want, and the other half that will just click something at random if they
don't know what is going on.

I used to work in a quite large Norwegian bank where everybody used
Outlook. A lot of the people I know from there would click "Yes" just to
see what would happen. (For example, I once got an incarnation of the
"Good times" virus warning from some people there).

Bottom line is: As long as there are stupid people, the only choice is to
make it "hard" for them to use that stupidity to ruin the day for
others. I therefore would go for the "associate vbs and soforth with
notepad/wordpad" any day. Non-stupid users would find a way around that
anyway...:)

Oystein