ZDNet

100 million and one reasons to hate VB and VBScript

It was a simple VBScript program that allowed 17-year-old Sergey Taraspov to grab 100 million plus credit card numbers from Target and Neiman Marcus stores. Those 100 million credit card holders are ...
Ars Technica

"compile" vbscript?

Is there a way I can compile a vbscript into an application or do something else to prevent users from looking at the code?<BR><BR>I have a login script that needs to write to a mysql database, and ...
Ars Technica

VBScript... help with variable substitution

I am having trouble figuring out if I can perform this bit of variable substitution. The script simply runs a query against ADSI.<BR><BR>I want to be able to run this VBScript, providing cmd line ...
MCPmag

5 Reasons To Use VBScript Instead of PowerShell

I'm a huge PowerShell fanboy. I actively blog about PowerShell, tweet about PowerShell, and present about PowerShell. I'm also the president of a local PowerShell users group. Needless to say, I no ...
Redmond Magazine

Creating Multiple Active Directory User Accounts Using a VB Script

There are several ways to create user accounts in Active Directory. If you have a single account to create, you can input the user data manually because that will probably be the quickest way. You can ...
Threat Post

Microsoft Patches JScript, VBScript Flaw Under Attack

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday security bulletins include a patch for a JScript and VBScript scripting engine vulnerability being publicly exploited. Microsoft released a hefty load of security bulletins ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Classic VB Listing #1: Windows Scripting Host Option

Public Sub SendKeys(ByVal Keys As String, Optional Wait As Boolean = False) Dim wsh As Object ' Only mess with shell object under constraint. If (IsVista() = True) And (Compiled() = False) Then ' ...