Hi,
QuoteMacro viruses involving infected Word and Excel files were a plague in the late 1990s. Yet, like grunge music, the genre fell into decline as techniques and technologies moved on. More recently macro viruses have staged something of a revival, thanks to social-engineering trickery.
Windows executable malware has dominated macro viruses written in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) since the turn of the century.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/08/macro_viruses_return_from_the_dead/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/08/macro_viruses_return_from_the_dead/)
https://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2014/07/vb201407-VBA (https://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2014/07/vb201407-VBA)
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/07/07/remember-macro-viruses-infected-word-and-excel-files-theyre-back/ (http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/07/07/remember-macro-viruses-infected-word-and-excel-files-theyre-back/)
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My search: Version2.dk
Good old social engineering -- playing on the curiosity of humans!
The conclusion from the VB article:
QuoteFinally, a piece of advice: there is no justification as to why the content of a document can only be displayed properly if the execution of macros is enabled. If you receive a document with this advice, be aware: you are probably being attacked.
Quote from: Corrine on July 09, 2014, 08:42:13 PM
Good old social engineering -- playing on the curiosity of humans!
The conclusion from the VB article:
QuoteFinally, a piece of advice: there is no justification as to why the content of a document can only be displayed properly if the execution of macros is enabled. If you receive a document with this advice, be aware: you are probably being attacked.
Got that right! Tragic that people would fall for that!