A good history of macro viruses can be found in Dr. Alan Solomon's seminal paper "Introduction to Macro Viruses" -- a must-read for anyone interested in virus history. Besides displaying this joke ...

Although macro viruses of old targeted Microsoft Office applications, the proof-of-concept macrodubbed by Kaspersky, Woburn, Mass., as Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.a is the first that is ...

This word macro virus adds a paragraph to the end of every document you print protesting against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Written by the Trident virus writing gang based in the ...

When that file is opened, the virus does its damage. Macro viruses can come in Microsoft Word documents that are sent as email attachments. The macro causes the damage when the document is opened ...