New VBScript virus

[slanning at buphy.bu.edu (Scott Lanning)]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
>(Sooner or later, someone's going to figure out that the real
>problem is the "security model" in Windows, i.e. none.

As a fix (though this isn't a Windows list), you can change the
registry to associate VBS files with notepad instead of the script
shells. RUn regedit, then under

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/VBSFile/Shell/Open/Command
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/VBSFile/Shell/Open2/Command
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WSHFile/Shell/Open/Command
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WSHFile/Shell/Open2/Command

modify (make backup copy too, if you like) to

    c:\windows\notepad.exe %1

Also, you might rename c:\windows\command\cscript.exe
and c:\windows\wshell.exe, which are what the above
originally pointed to.

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