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Tricking someone into enabling macros on a downloaded Microsoft Excel or Word file is an old hacker chestnut. That one click from a target creates a foothold for attackers to take over their devices.

Excel 4.0 XLM macros can be used to get malware onto people's PCs, so Microsoft is disabling them by default. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Word and Excel documents are enlisted to disable Office macro warnings, so the Zloader banking malware can be downloaded onto systems without security tools flagging it. Legacy users of Microsoft ...

Microsoft will not block VBA macros by default in downloaded Office documents. The company has tested a default block for VBA macros since April 2022, but decided against rolling it out to general ...

Microsoft announced today that it will make it difficult to enable VBA macros downloaded from the Internet in several Microsoft Office apps starting in early April, effectively killing a popular ...

Alan is a technology author based in Nova Scotia, Canada. A computer enthusiast since his youth, Alan stays current on what is new and what is next. With over 30 years of experience in computer, video ...

When you open an Excel file after downloading it, it opens in Protected View by default. However, some users cannot edit the file even after enabling editing. They ...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the endless loop of repetitive tasks in Excel—manually formatting rows, cleaning up data, or applying the same calculations over and over again? It’s frustrating, ...