Tag: melissa
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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…
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Macro malware on the rise again
Users taught that having to enable enhanced security features is no big deal. When I joined Virus Bulletin almost eight years ago, macro viruses were already a thing of the past, like porn diallers or viruses that did funny things to the characters on your screen: threats that were once a real problem, but that…