Such utilities can be simple Bittorrent clients or dubious utilities that will download unverified things from even more dubious web sites. I also noticed another thing very popular today – in order to faster download stuff off the Internet (legal stuff, such as Linux distributions), people tend to use a lot of different utilities that are supposed to provide faster download speeds. While in this case it was easy to spot the error since the whole script is only 10 lines long, in other cases we should be very careful. This simple error shows how dangerous it can be to just blindly copy&paste stuff off the Internet and run it in your environment. Unfortunately, the author (accidentally?) added couple of white spaces so this script became extremely dangerous: it will try to delete all files in the %systemroot% directory, in C: and in the current directory.
The script is, as you can see, very simple – all it does is stop the printer spooler (the spooler service) and then it is supposed to delete all files in the %systemroot%system32spoolprinters directory. Just deleting stuff.įOR %%A IN (%systemroot% system32 spool printers *.*) DO DEL %%A I am pasting the original, as it was on the web site below (of course, do not run offĮcho deleting stuff. The script is supposed to help users get rid of print jobs which are still in the spooler, but a couple of obvious errors were done. One of our readers, Bill, wrote in to let us know about a pretty dangerous batch script that was posted on a web site that he visited.
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