Tag: macro virus
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Throwback Thursday: ‘In the Beginning was the Word…’
Microsoft has recently introduced a new feature to Office 2016 : the ability to block macros,in an attempt to curb the spread of macro malware, which is once again on the rise . Macro viruses first appeared in 1995, at a time when there were over 100 times as many DOS viruses in existence as…
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Throwback Thursday: The Unbearable Lightness of Testing
VB gets in on the Throwback Thursday act, delving into the archives. Over the last couple of years, the ‘Throwback Thursday’ trend has taken the Internet by storm, with social media users indulging in a weekly wallow in nostalgia, fondly resurrecting photographs of themselves wearing terrible fashion in their childhood or sporting awful haircuts in…
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Macro viruses make a return in targeted attacks
Macros disabled in modern versions of Office, but enabled within many organisations. A report by the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC, the Dutch CERT) points to a resurgence of macro viruses in targeted attacks. Macro viruses are viruses that are written in a software’s built-in macro language. They were very common in the late 1990s,…