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The return of macro viruses
Macro viruses used to be widespread around 2003-2008. Then, they seemed to disappear. Now it seems in the last year or two that they are back. What was the driver for this?
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FWIW, the anti-virus community is pretty proactive and updates are daily or more often. The problem being that most ransomware sends out unique payloads so the # of uniques is on the rise. Unfortunately this defeats signature based AV
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