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Tech Time Warp: Introducing the Concept of a macro virus

Tech Time Warp: Introducing the Concept of a macro virus

As computer users learned from the Melissa virus, malware often arrives as a wolf in sheep’s clothing: a commonplace file such as a Word doc or Excel spreadsheet. But Melissa—the scourge of spring 1999—was not the first such “macro virus”...

/ April 23, 2021