Re:Microsoft Uses Trademark Law to Disrupt Trickbot Botnet
by withinboredom on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:19PM
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> Why on earth would opening a .doc document infect a freaking computer?
Itβs more like a friend sends you source code and your IDE compiles it in the background only to discover that the act of compiling it had it shove some executable in ~/bin.
For over five years now, the default for Word is not to run code/macros. Some corporate IT has that disabled or they might still be running office 2012/07.
Itβs more like a friend sends you source code and your IDE compiles it in the background only to discover that the act of compiling it had it shove some executable in ~/bin.
For over five years now, the default for Word is not to run code/macros. Some corporate IT has that disabled or they might still be running office 2012/07.