Newsletter Archives

• Remember how this month’s Outlook security patches broke VBScript printing?

  Posted on September 19, 2017 at 07:56 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Ends up it was a feature, not a bug.

  Computerworld Woody on Windows.

  Tweet from @JBar3000:

  KB4011089 also breaks archived mail in Outlook 2010. You can only see a portion of the message and the link to see the rest doesn’t work.

  Office Patches/Security KB 4011086, KB 4011089, KB 4011090, KB 4011091, VBScript

• Consider a non-Windows OS for email security

  Posted on July 24, 2017 at 03:27 CDT by Kirsty • Comment in the Forums

  In closing a recent ComputerWorld.com post, Michael Horowitz concluded:

  “If you read email on a Windows computer, do yourself a favor and use a different operating system, at least for email.”

  The article was discussing Windows Scripting Host (WSH), JavaScript and VBScript malicious files, which have been associated with recent malware via emails.

  WSH can execute scripts written in many programming languages. Out of the box, it does JScript and VBScript but other languages, such as Perl and Python, can also be installed.

  Michael details how to disable the WSH component, and to have any such attachments to open in Notepad, which changes them from being script files. You can find the details here.

  Windows Patches/Security JavaScript, malware, VBScript, WSH

• Outlook Forms run VBScript even when macros are disabled

  Posted on May 2, 2017 at 18:53 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Full story at InfoWorld Woody on Windows.

  Any Outlook Forms experts out there? Can you pass a Form on to an unsuspecting Outlook user and trap them, without the victim having to do something weird, like add the Form to a library?

  Office Patches/Security Outlook Form, VBScript