You’ve managed to acquire a Word macro virus. Dealing with it is a two-step process. First, you need to clean the documents you have, and next, prevent further infections.

Here's the deal. Corporate just put NAV on our server (Netware 5.1). Been yelling at them for about a year or 2 and now they did it but they botched it a little. They set it up so it only scans ...

"Stardust is a macro virus written for StarOffice, the first one I've seen," the researcher wrote. "Macro viruses usually infect MS Office applications." The pest is written in Star Basic.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Personal firewalls have become all the rage to protect home computer systems against the Internet's vandals. Now, the concept is being adapted to protect those same computers from ...

A post on the virus blog VirusList is warning users about a macro virus that affects the OpenOffice and StarOffice suites. No doubt a number of engineers in Redmond are cackling with delight, but ...

Way back in 1995, Microsoft accidentally shipped a virus on CD-ROM. At first Microsoft refused to call it a virus, preferring to call it a “Prank macro,” but WM/Concept as it became known was the ...

A good history of macro viruses can be found in Dr. Alan Solomon's seminal paper "Introduction to Macro Viruses" -- a must-read for anyone interested in virus history.

Rob Steward informed us of an issue where Norton AntiVirus (versions 6 or 7) would claim to fix Word files infected with Word macro viruses but apparently not actual repair the files.

Whoever the virus writer is, the work took its toll today. The Computer Emergency Response Team, a Pentagon-financed security service at Carnegie Mellon University, reported calls from 250 ...

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From macro viruses and boot sector viruses to droppers and packers, here’s a look at 9 common virus types, what they do, and the function they perform for attackers.

A Word macro virus that was unleashed in the spring of 1999. It sent an email message with a list of pornographic websites to the first 50 names in the user's Microsoft Outlook address book. The ...