A Macro Virus is a malware that can infect any software written with a macro language notable among which are the Microsoft Office programs like Word and Excel. Macro Virus takes advantage of Macros ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of ...

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous has acquired a Word cootie and is at a loss as how to deal with it. Anonymous Person writes: My copy of Microsoft Office 2004 seems to have picked up a virus, ...

Say what you will about Millennials getting nostalgic about the 1990s, but it's much better than malicious hackers doing so. A new banking Trojan called DRIDEX makes use of Microsoft Word macros, an ...

Bravo to Microsoft, because it sounds like they’re doing something to improve the security of Office users. Way back in 1995, Microsoft accidentally shipped a virus on CD-ROM. At first Microsoft ...

You can block Macros and consequently, Macro viruses or Macro targeted malware files, from the Internet, from opening & running automatically in your Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, or ...

Debate continues over whether Apple’s MacOS is inherently more safe from malware than Windows or if Macs simply aren’t targeted as often because of their smaller share of the PC market. Regardless, ...

Macro viruses were designed to target specific applications, most commonly Microsoft Word. One particularly effective macro virus, called Melissa, was transmitted via email to a user’s address book.

The latest in the series became apparent last Friday when ON Technology said it had discovered in the wild a new strain of the Laroux virus that infects Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. The virus - ...

Here's the deal. Corporate just put NAV on our server (Netware 5.1). Been yelling at them for about a year or 2 and now they did it but they botched it a little. They set it up so it only scans files ...

The proof of concept Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.a, is the first virus that can theoretically infect StarOffice and OpenOffice, according to a researcher’s posting on Kaspersky’s Viruslist weblog. The ...