Subscribe to our newsletter. Macros are actually mini-programs embedded in the document, and thus have many of the same rights and abilities as the user who is logged on to the system. Macro viruses are one of the more common forms of infection, replaced only recently by Internet worms in terms of prevalency. As with any virus , the effect can be a benign annoyance to loss of critical data.
Exact methods can vary, with some macro viruses only infecting currently open documents.
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