MS Office macro viruses are back

[Frands]

Hi,

Macro 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/

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/

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[Corrine]

Good old social engineering -- playing on the curiosity of humans! 

The conclusion from the VB article:

Finally, 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.

[LilBambi]

Good old social engineering -- playing on the curiosity of humans! 

The conclusion from the VB article:

Finally, 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!