Re: question about virus today & e-mail scanners

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

There was a thread a few days ago about the Love Letter virus in which Dave 
Shea posted a wonderful little essay on closing the barn door on this kind of 
VBS threat by adjusting the defaults on Window Scripting, then someone at 
SSAX (I now forget who) asked for a web site reference on where these facts 
came from so we could check it out further & possibly link our own help desk 
efforts to a useful site.  Here is something I got from Symantec's Norton 
Anti-Virus Containment effort.

Title: 'How to uninstall the Windows Scripting Host'
Document ID: 2000050512031906
Web URL: 
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nav.nsf/docid/2000050512031906&src=w

And incidentally, I still have not managed to get My Computer & Control Panel 
back in business yet, but Ask Symantec is giving me a stream of things to try 
out. 

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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