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By the late 1990’s, computer worms had stolen the spotlight from macro viruses. Ultimately, worms would cause billions of dollars in damages and launch computer security into the public eye. If you ...

Another form of Microsoft Word malware that infects both macOS and Windows machines has been detected. The malicious VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code is buried in a Word document macro and ...

Microsoft appears to have quietly, and without fanfare, reversed a February 2022 policy to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default across five of the most used Office applications, ...

Though Microsoft has backed off earlier plans to block unsafe macros in Excel documents, that change is still coming. Here's what to do now to stay secure. On July 8, Microsoft pulled back from its ...

Microsoft will soon begin disabling Excel 4.0 XLM macros by default in Microsoft 365 tenants to protect customers from malicious documents. Excel 4.0 macros, or XLM macros, were first added to Excel ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. One of the most underrated gadgets for PC users is probably not what you'd expect. It has to do with hotkeys, or macros. Keyboards are great, ...

While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default, Redmond said on Thursday that it will roll back this change based on "feedback" until ...