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Firewall / wscript.exe
Name: Christopher S. Date: January 8, 2004 at 20:17:17 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: P3 1.7/256
Comment:
Just today my firewall (Norton's) started picking up wscript.exe wanting to send. It picked it up twice earlier in the day and that was in, then twice just now and that was it.
Any guess what could be the cause of this, and whether I should always allow/deny this?
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