Here is an extract from ZDnet telling how to disable the Windows Scripting tool which allows E-Mail Viruses to work on your PC.
Blame Bill Gates
Linux and Mac users are happily immune to the ill effects of ILOVEYOU, which depends upon the Windows Scripting Host to get launched once it's triggered on the user's computer.
And that's where Microsoft needs to belly up to the table.
It's been more than a year since ExplorZip should have sent a wake-up call to Microsoft about the dangers of Visual Basic scripts running in e-mail.
The silence from Redmond has been deafening.
Microsoft has always been about features, features, features. But in its mad rush to throw everything into its products but the kitchen sink, the company has given security criminally short shrift.
At this point, the user community should say the heck with it and follow this six-click recipe for sanity.
Settings.
Control Panel
Add/Remove programs
Windows setup
Accessories
Unclick Windows scripting host
Really obvious. Something your cousin Moe from Saskatchewan is surely going to know right off the bat.
Yeah, right.
I don't think it's too much to ask Microsoft to make sure your e-mail won't get maliciously manipulated by some cyberschmuck.