Tag: macro viruses
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Throwback Thursday: The Number of the Beasts
The Virus Bulletin Virus Prevalence Table, which ran from 1992 until 2013, gave users a regular snapshot of what was really going on in the virus (and later malware) world, each month recording the number of incidents of each virus reported to VB in the preceding month. In August 2000, Denis Zenkin, a self-confessed virus…
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Throwback Thursday: Macro Viruses & The Little Virus That Could…
This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to 1999, when Melissa was causing havoc across the globe and VB presented a series of articles detailing all you ever wanted to know about macro viruses but were afraid to ask. Until recently, macro viruses were a thing of the past — true ‘retro’ viruses (as…