In a new move to improve Microsoft Office security, the software giant announced that internet macros will now be blocked by default. Kellie Eickmeyer, principal product manager at Microsoft, ...
Microsoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling it back earlier this month following user feedback. The change ...
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.
Macros can be highly useful tools in Microsoft Office. Most Microsoft Office macros use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or Excel 4.0 macros (XLM). These programming and macro languages have a ...
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today announced that five Office applications will block Visual ...
Starting in early April, Microsoft plans to make it tougher to enable VBA macros that are downloaded from the internet in several of its Office apps. The effect, the company hopes, will be to ...
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 ...