Wscript??

#1 three

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Posted 29 August 2001 - 11:51 AM

One of the win98 box here at work has been acting up lately, i scanned it for virus but none was found. What happens is that everytime you open up explorer, it gives you a prompt about Active X scripts and if you would like to activate it. Networking and actually the whole pc itself has become really slow. I checked the task manager and noticed alot of 'Wscript' being run. Anybody know what the problem might be?
TIA

#2 jimbo

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Posted 05 May 2003 - 03:45 AM

I know you've scanned it but it really smells like a virus.
For example there is the Wscript.KakWorm virus which is quite nasty as it runs from the preview pane of Outlook Express.
For more information I recommend checking out Sarc.com here
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html

Hope this helps.

#3 pbuckne

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Posted 15 June 2003 - 10:06 PM

What version of win98 and what version of IE?

#4 DS3Circuit

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Posted 16 June 2003 - 03:38 AM

Do an AV Scan from DOS or Safe Mode .... far more reliable results when the OS is 9X based.

See what happens when you change the default assocation from windows script to command script. IE = wscript //H:cscript

HTH