• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Microsoft office documents not running in protected mode can run arbitrary code on your computer. Given VBA that arbitrary code can pretty much access anything any installed application can.

    There’s a load of Office malware written that can infect all the documents on your system with keyloggers and password scrapers.

    It’s a pain in the ass yeah, but it exists to mitigate a very real risk.