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Prior to Advansys Formativ, was Novell GroupWise immune from script viruses?

April 26, 2017advansys formativ Novell GroupWise prior Script viruses

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Prior to Advansys Formativ, was Novell GroupWise immune from script viruses?

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No. Script viruses could be written to infect any email system, including GroupWise. All that was required was the VBS/VBE file association to be enabled, and a script virus written specifically for the Novell GroupWise object model. The only reason GroupWise users have not been victims of script viruses is that no-one has written viruses specifically for GroupWise. This is all possible without having Formativ installed. Installing Formativ actually reduces the risk of being infected by a Visual Basic Script virus as it provides the opportunity to disable the association between .VBS/.VBE files and the Windows Script Host.