Microsoft has just announced plans to remove support for Visual Basic Script (VBScript) in future updated versions of Windows.
According to GearRice system administrators, VBScript was a feature first introduced by Microsoft in 1996 as part of the Visual Basic language and in a short time it became quite popular among Windows
VBScript’s success among Windows system administrators is based on the simplicity of automating tasks within the operating system. The big thing is that they are not the only ones taking advantage of this system to automate things as cybercriminals also use it to infect Windows systems, with one of the biggest milestones being the famous malware ‘I Love You’.
Microsoft also added VBScript support to Internet Explorer – a browser that is no longer provided and updated by Microsoft in the latest versions of Windows. Even when disabled from IE several years ago, Microsoft still supports security patch updates for VBScript. However, this is about to no longer continue as Microsoft announced on its website that “VBScript is no longer available, but VBScript will be available as an on-demand feature on future versions of Windows before being removed from the operating system”.
At the present time, Microsoft has not yet provided an exact date for its plan. The company also did not give too much explanation for the disappearance of this feature, but it largely stems from security issues. Attackers will no longer be able to use .vbs scripts in attacks, eliminating one of the simple steps for them to penetrate the security of Windows operating systems.
In addition to VBScript, many classic Windows programs will no longer be available, including WordPad, AllJoyn, TLS 1.0 and 1.1, Cortana, Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT), or Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications for 32-bit ARM