[kman42]

Word just asked me if I wanted to Enable/Disable Macros for a document. Should I be worried about that? I hear so much about MS Macro viruses.

kman

[CharlesS]

If you didn't expect there to be a macro there, don't let it run. That simple.

[kman42]

Is there a way to always turn off macros?

kman

[CharlesS]

Don't I wish.

Apparently the next version of Office for Mac won't support the macros anymore, though, and will use some AppleScript-based thing instead in the Mac version. That'll take care of the macro virus pretty thoroughly on the Mac, but it'll also royally piss off the people who actually did use the macros, since they won't be cross-platform anymore.

[cybergoober]

As Charles said, if you weren't expecting the document to have macros DO NOT enable them. I had a user a couple of weeks ago who got an old macro virus (W97M.Thus.A) that had infected her Normal template file. Took me a while to figure out what the heck was going on. Trashing the Normal template and copying the contents of the infected (after opening them with macros disabled) files into new blank documents seemed to have sorted it. I also let Symantec Antivirus do a scan overnight to repair any files that she may have missed.

Macros = BAD

[OreoCookie]

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