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Turning off "Windows Based Script Host"

Calahonda52 · 2016-06-21 07:43:00

[May be wrong section] http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36575687 is about Ransom ware being delivered by javascript via .js files and suggests: Additionally, Windows can be instructed not to start the "Windows Based Script Host" when a .js file is double-clicked. Just wonder how is it done and it it a good solution…

21-06-2016 08:43AM

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[May be wrong section]
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36575687

is about Ransom ware being delivered by javascript via .js files and suggests: Additionally, Windows can be instructed not to start the "Windows Based Script Host" when a .js file is double-clicked.

Just wonder how is it done and it it a good solution generally.
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#2 22-06-2016 11:00PM

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If you're a home user and not in a corporate environment then you could disable it, some corporate environments might push updates via a batch file which runs a vbs script. That will stop working if you disable.

You also might stumble upon something in the future that requires permission to run a vbs script.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee198684.aspx

Could be a better solution:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee198679.aspx

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