Forum Archive Index - March 2000

["John H T Wilkinson" <jhtw@clear.net.nz>]

Hello Wilfried,

 

I checked my hard disk and found that I too had the file "network.vbs" sitting on my hard drive in C:\WINDOWS\SAMPLES\Wsh.

 

My InVircible Anti-Virus Expert System is always on alert and did not signal any warnings so I printed out that file and found it headed "Windows Script Host Sample Script", Copyright (C) 1996 Microsoft Corporation. It's purpose is to demonstrate how to use the WSHNetwork object.

 

Just to make sure I did not have a time bomb sitting there I took your tip and spent a couple of hours downloading and using the McAfee virus checker, which after going thru all 23,000 odd files on my computer, came up with zilch!!!

 

Is it possible that your network.vbs file has something wrong with it and everyone else's is OK?

 

Regards,

John Wilkinson

 

PS: 23,000 odd files !!

      Good God, where did they all come from?

      I am tempted to use some of Windows housekeeping tools but then I suspect the machine takes over and I may loose files I want to keep!

      Any suggestions anyone?

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Wilfried Roding

To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz

Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2000 18:11

Subject: RE: [sharechat] network.vbs

Dear Phil

 

Go to http://www.mcafee.com/centers/clinic/ - all is self-explanatory from there.

 

I suggest you install a virus checker such as Nortons or McAfee.

I run Nortons Utilities, an excellent package of useful maintenance software including a virus checker.

 

Apparently network.vbs is not a serious infection. You must however find, isolate and delete the malicious files.

 

Regards

Willi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz [mailto:owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz]On Behalf Of Philip Robinson
Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2000 12:50
To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
Subject: [sharechat] network.vbs

Dear Will,

 

You mentioned the file network.vbs. I have searched for this and I have found it. Is it another virus and what should be done about it? Your advice would be very helpful to one who is virally ignorant.

 

Thank you

Philip Robinson