Quoth Joel Hammer: > I see that vbscript can be embedded in html. > > Javascript was written to make it very hard to attack the client computer, > whereas vbscript doesn't have these safeguards built in, does it? VBscript > can do a lot of stuff, like write to your hard drive and run windows > software. It really is a beaut.
For writers of virii, indeed it is. > It would seem like child's play to encode malicious things in vbscript > and let the IE users get whacked. If IE somehow was protected against > running this program, it would be easy to make a vbscript a payload > (cool screen saver!) and then have the unlucky user click on it and run it. Ayup. > What am I missing? Not a thing. > Who in his right mind would use vbscript over javascript in their html, > anyway? Why would you keep out anyone not using IE and a modern version > of windows? (Let me guess. People who use MS development products.) I don't know. But, because I prefer choice and standards-compliance, I probably will never understand. Kurt -- Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
