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You have to double click the downloaded file to execute it under Windows Script Host
by thefreeman 10y ago
You have to double click the downloaded file to execute it under Windows Script Host
- my_first_acct 10y agoThanks. That is somewhat reassuring. The likelihood of my doing something stupid/oblivious is higher than it should be, but the likelihood of being stupid twice in a row is quite a bit lower.
- jaredsohn 10y agoI imagine the likelihood of making incorrect decisions twice in a row is higher in some contexts, though. For example, if you click a button that says it will download a Flash update from some random website, I'm guessing there is a good chance you will then run it afterward.
- alexchantavy 10y agoAnd then if you have UAC (or whatever it's called) turned on, you'll get a warning that the .exe you're about to run is unsigned, right?
- yuhong 10y agoIt is not an exe. But even without UAC, there is another layer of warnings that has been there since XP SP2 for unsafe file types downloaded from the Internet.
- vanderZwan 10y agoHuh, I never thought about that mainly being protection against the use-case of not realising you downloaded/opened an executable, which is actually quite realistic for the slightly less computer-confident. That makes it a much more acceptable feature.