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<blockquote data-quote="509322" data-source="post: 770791">You know what, disabling wscript\cscript is a simple matter of ON\OFF or running it with restricted privileges if you happen to need it. Of course lowered rights is not a solution to everything, it does solve many security issues. For someone with a weeny bit of knowledge, it should not be difficult for them to figure out &quot;Hey, I need this all the time so I won&#039;t disable it permanently or I need it once in a while and therefore I can turn it on only when I need it, and finally, I don&#039;t need it so I&#039;m gonna kill it.&quot;I am all for educating the user and empowering them. Instead of enslaving them to the OS and softs in ignorance.The fact of the matter is if Microsoft would rip out the high-risk&nbsp; garbage in Windows such as wscript, then publishers would adjust their products and make it work. That&#039;s what we do now anyway because Microsoft makes changes unilaterally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="509322, post: 770791"] You know what, disabling wscript\cscript is a simple matter of ON\OFF or running it with restricted privileges if you happen to need it. Of course lowered rights is not a solution to everything, it does solve many security issues. For someone with a weeny bit of knowledge, it should not be difficult for them to figure out "Hey, I need this all the time so I won't disable it permanently or I need it once in a while and therefore I can turn it on only when I need it, and finally, I don't need it so I'm gonna kill it." I am all for educating the user and empowering them. Instead of enslaving them to the OS and softs in ignorance. The fact of the matter is if Microsoft would rip out the high-risk garbage in Windows such as wscript, then publishers would adjust their products and make it work. That's what we do now anyway because Microsoft makes changes unilaterally. [/QUOTE]

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