Microsoft announced the 2017 that it plans to disable VBScript on Internet 11. The company then stopped the mode, but kept it for specific environments, to give more time to organizations that were still using VBScript.
VBScript was released by Microsoft about two decades ago and is an active programming language based on Visual Basic.
Sometime in 2000 VBScript became famous when a worm known as I Love You or Love Letter Virus was released.
Users received emails post officey that had ILOVEYOU as their subject and contained an attachment of the form LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs. Those who opened the attachment infected their computers with the worm.
One of the problems then was that Windows hid the real one extension of the attachment. So many Windows users thought it was some harmless text file from someone who loved them.
Infected computers continued to send emails using the victim's contact list.
Microsoft then advised Microsoft Internet Explorer users to disable VBScript from the Internet browser to protect their browser from VBScript attacks.
Administrators and users had to manually disable VBScript in Internet Explorer at that time.
Οι αθροιστικές ενημερώσεις που κυκλοφορήσαν τον Ιούλιο του 2019 για τα Windows 10 απενεργοποίησαν από προεπιλογή το VBScript στους υπολογιστές που τρέχουν το τελευταίο λειτουργικό σύστημα της Microsoft.
The next cumulative updates which will be released in August 2019 for Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 will do the same on older machines.
However, VBScript will not be removed at this time. Microsoft says it will still be possible to enable it on systems if older technology is still required.
Settings for enabling or disabling VBScript execution in Internet Explorer 11 will remain with settings per site security zone, through the Registry, or through the Policy Group if you need to use these scrips.
A post on the Microsoft Support Website gives us more details about the options available. In short: administrators will be able to enable VBScript using the registry, Group Policy (business only), or Web site security zone.
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