Re: Problem with Google

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 10/03/03 

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 01:05:45 -0400

"Kent W. England [MVP]" <kwe@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:usjlKTViDHA.272@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>
> The exploit currently has no patch. The workaround is to disable .hta
> files. One way is to tell your personal firewall to disallow Internet
> access to mshta.exe and the other way is to dissociate .hta files from
> mshta.exe.

Important information for all of us. For this one, at the moment, there is
no Santa Claus--no easy fix. This is true of many things in life, but we've
come to expect magic bullets in this technological realm.

Relevant Pages

  • Document.URL Escape Characters
    ... I have an .hta that was querying its document.URL to determine where it is ... In case anyone else needs a workaround, ... function in VBScript or JScript to normalize the value. ...
    (microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript)
  • Re: Message Box
    ... You cannot disable the "X" in a msgbox - using an HTA is the common ... workaround, which is why B-Mann suggested it. ... contains some VBSCRIPT code to do the logoff for you. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.scripting)
  • HTA Problem.
    ... I wrote a HTA Browser. ... Is there a workaround? ... If this is not the right place for HTA questions, ...
    (microsoft.public.scripting.wsh)