Pros
None whatsoever.
Cons
Downloaded and attempted to unzip, once unzipped my virus scanner went off, contained adware and possably Virus' inside it.
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Reply by khalloodaa on August 9, 2009
What's your Anti-Virus software?
I scanned it with Avast Home Edition, and it didn't detect any virus in it.
Pros
Simple clean command line tool.
Scripts have to be structured properly.
Cons
Some script don't work but, I think this is more reflective of scripting limitations than vbstoexe
Better documentation needed. For example how to call subs/functions externally, etc.
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Cons
I never actually was able to get it to work.
First, if you don't supply it any switches, just type "vbstoexe" and press enter, you get a cryptic error. The same if you try supply the standard MS platform /? or /help switches.
Luckily, when I downloaded it, I also saved the download page, so was able to determine that the help screen switch is the more 'linuxy' -h.
While "vbstoexe -h" supplied me with the helpscreen, I still mistakenly supplied the -e switch to convert to an executable, it asked for a password, I hit enter, and it locked up.
At this point CTRL-C would not cause vbstoexe to end and it was using 99% of the CPU, so I was forced to end the it via taskmanager.
After this incident every attempt to invoke vbstoexe simply locked up, even passing it the -h request for help, or even with no switches at all.
Even a reboot does not fix this issue, nor did re-downloading the file in the hope that somehow the exe got messed up. There were no extra (settings or ini) files created in the working directory, so right now I'm forced to conclude that this program makes some kind of change to your registry, and since I supplied it with the wrong switch at the wrong time, it will never ever work right, unless I care to track down the registry entry and change it manually.
I really don't understand the point of a simple command line program like this making registry changes, and consider it to be suspicious and sloppy programming at best, and ominous and alarming at worst.
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Pros
Not applicable - didn't work...
Cons
Doesn't work. When a VBS file is converted, the resulting file does not run (nothing happens).
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