[X4U] Consumer Reports

[keith_w]

Brett Conlon wrote:

> 
> Just a further thought....
> 
> We have Office on all the Macs in our studio and haven't encountered a 
> single macro virus - thank goodness!
> 
> Unfortunately you won't always have the luxury of being able to disable 
> macros when opening a document that has them. There are a number of Word 
> docs in our company that simply won't open if you disable the macros. 

Really?
Altho' I've used Word for years, I guess that was too long ago, 'cause I 
can't imagine the problem you're having with it.
Thanks for the caution.

keith whaley

> However, in each case I have thought about their origins (some received 
> from outside sources also) and I make a judgement call to open them with 
> macros enabled or not - usually I let the macros run.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Coj


> *Randy B.Singer <randy at macattorney.com>*
> 
> In both Word and Excel, under Preferences, there is an option called
> "Macro Virus Protection."  Enable that and when the program encounters a
> macro it will block it and ask if you are sure if you want to run it.  If
> you never allow a macro to run, you are 100% protected.
> 
> 
> Randy B. Singer