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 ...

Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. The company today (May 30) detailed how the phase-out will occur in three stages, the final ...

This will re-register the concerned DLL file using the Windows OS tool regsvr32.exe. The Regsvr32 tool is a command-line utility that can be used for registering, and un-registering OLE controls as ...

The big picture: The Windows ecosystem has offered an unparalleled level of backward compatibility for decades. However, Microsoft is now working to remove as many legacy technologies as possible in ...

A script to delete the printers installed on a computer can be very useful to a business's IT department. Constructing such a script with VBScript only requires a few lines of code, so if you are ...

My old supervisor (since departed) created a software install package (files and folders) and a VBS install script which has worked fine in XP for years. (Yes, my company is still using XP, but we are ...

Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release. Vole announced that Visual Basic Scripting ...

So I have this script I picked up to query AD and pull machine password ages and compare it against a set days old that is specified. Something seems wrong with it because when I run it against my ...

The recently-patched flaw could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. Researchers have discovered that the Darkhotel APT is ...

The VBScript Replace function lets you switch out one character for another in a string. You can use this function to replace the period character with an underscore. You load the file name into a ...