Since April, key Office apps on Windows have, by default, made it much harder to run VBA macros that have been delivered from the internet. Previously, users could fairly easily click a button to ...

Office can track which macros were downloaded from the Internet or from a networked share using a "Zone.Identifier" tag, at least when the file is saved to an NTFS volume.

Office macros are able to do too much. I was the one with a proof-of-concept MS Word 2.0 macro, showing how saving a document as a template, with an auto-run startup macro, could lock up a computer.

The AMSI-Office 365 integration allowed scanning of Excel 4.0 macros at runtime last year, bringing it in line with the same runtime scanning capability for VBA macros in 2018.