Parth is a technology analyst and writer specializing in the comprehensive review and feature exploration of the Android ecosystem. His work is distinguished by its meticulous focus on flagship ...

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 ...

Parth is a technology analyst and writer specializing in the comprehensive review and feature exploration of the Android ecosystem. His work is distinguished by its meticulous focus on flagship ...

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, ...

If you are concerned about the security of your computer, you must scan encrypted macros before opening a Word document. If you want to do that, you need to enable this setting in the Local Group ...

A script that is executed within a Microsoft Word document that adds some automatic function for the user. Macros can be created with the Word macro recorder, which stores repetitive keystrokes, or a ...

Security researchers have discovered a new ransomware strain named qkG that targets only Office documents for encryption and infects the Word default document template to propagate to new Word ...

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, ...

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 ...