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Hasta la Vista, baby
John Leyden, The Register 2005-08-04

Virus writers have created proof of concept viruses targeting the scripting language behind prototype versions of Vista, the next version of Windows. An Austrian virus writer has published five simple viruses targeting Microsoft Command Shell (MSH), the command line interface and scripting language, in a virus writing magazine. None of these pieces of malware have been named as yet [How about phista - Ed?].

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Hasta la Vista, baby 2005-08-04
Matthew Murphy (1 replies)
Re: Hasta la Vista, baby 2005-08-06
Anonymous
They're likely to be closer to .vbs viruses (btw why didn't MS just keep pushing their windows scripting shell instead of introducing yet another scripting language?)

Keep in mind that the legion of macro-viruses that terrorized outlook users for years were all script viruses.

Good Times.

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