The worm's author used Visual Basic Script (VBS), a macro language for Windows. If you have the scripting language turned on your machine, VBS can allow someone so-minded to run scripts which change, delete or copy files.
Read on, and feel free to add a Reader Comment of your own. Narrow AI,' i.e.computers that can perform 'narrow' tasks that previously could only be accomplished by human intelligence, such as playing games (e.g.chess) at master levels, diagnosing...
Sun's StarOffice division intends to make Java a scripting language for StarOffice, which will help customers take advantage of Java's security features. When you include Java code for scripting purposes, you can restrict what Java can do at the...
Grove said: "The technology can be used for the analysis of protein structures. The chipmaker will also promote Intel-based servers to perform the massively demanding computing tasks required by drug designers and genetic engineers.
An 'angry customer and shareholder' said: "Staff at BT's Indian call centres try to help but seem to be working to a faulty 'script' which does not permit them to deal with our actual problems. Sadly many of those reader comments - which will...
Second Life residents can use the in-world scripting language to configure their new virtual Dell PCs to perform a number of simple tasks, such as alerting a resident when their friends are nearby, said Second Life creator Philip Rosedale.
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