Sentence examples for macro viruses from inspiring English sources

Mac owners can get macro viruses that are passed along by infected Microsoft Word documents.

(On the bright side, you're therefore safe from Word and Excel macro viruses).

But then hackers made macro viruses start doing things like erasing hard drives.

Macro viruses are now the fastest-growing type of computer infection.

(In the past several months, "macro" viruses, which spread via dirty spreadsheets and word processor documents, have become a severe problem).

About 70 percent of viruses created these days are "macro viruses," little scripts that travel in word processing and spreadsheet files.

Further Questions for Discussion: –How is a boot sector virus different from an executable, or macro, virus?

Ten years ago the first macro virus, WinWord Concept, redefined the malware business.

Another macro virus prankishly changes all the 'a's to 'e's when a file is saved.

But it is probably only a matter of time before someone writes a vicious macro virus, and with people swapping more and more documents each day the devastation could be widespread.

For example, one macro virus displays the following lines at the end of a Word document: "And finally I would like to say: STOP ALL FRENCH NUCLEAR TESTING IN THE PACIFIC".