>>>Thanks. I haven't run into some of these, even though I've heard about them. I fugured out how to restore the UDL link from a post I saw here combined with the research I was doing on the WSH articles for VFUG. I happened to be reading the Windows Script Host Programmers Reference shortly after hearing about the UDL problem and seeing a section on adding items to the New menu.
>>
>>
>>That WSH has a lot of us between a rock and a hard place. Functionality vs. security. WSH is a gaping security hole if you are connected to the internet or have some unscrupulous co-workers. It seems MS is favoring the functionality side. On isolated boxes that would not be a problem, but I seen email that doesn't have to be opened on some boxes to deliver its payload.
>
>You mean like the "ILOVEYOU" thing? One way to deal with that would be to delete wscript.exe and cscript.exe. You'd still have all the COM functionality available from within a program. I don't particularly like that solution, however.
>
>The only thing scripting does is potentially make it easier to wreak havoc. You could even use a DOS batch file to cause a lot of problems. I don't consider this any more dangerous than that.

That's true. While studying the virus problem a few years ago I made a DOS batch virus.