>>Sounds like a big panic to me. I'm not 100% but can't Outlook.Application do the same damage as WSH can ?
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>Nigel,
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>Someone else will have to answer that in full. I don't know about renaming files or copying files. Some of what was done, yes, could be done with a macro.
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>Side note to Bruce: Is your LAN Central also going to check for the Shell.Application object? It can do many of the same things that the WSH did. What would they do in that case? They can't rename Shell32.dll.

Lessee, what about all those nasty little API functions that the WSH serves as a wrapper to? Seems to me anyone armed with VB and a crayon can hurt you using the API...