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As with any common programming language, VBA macros can be created with malicious intent. Using VBA, most of the security features lie in the hands of the user, not the author. The VBA host application options are accessible to the user. The user who runs any document containing VBA macros can preset the software with user preferences.
It also introduced the ability to write non-GUI classes in Visual Basic. With VB4 the language was separated from the GUI library, and made available as VBA, in which form it was embedded with the Office 95 suite. To ease migration of Office macros and scripts, features from WordBasic, Excel Basic and Access Basic were incorporated into the ...
A macro virus can be spread through e-mail attachments, removable media, networks and the Internet, and is notoriously difficult to detect. [1] A common way for a macro virus to infect a computer is by replacing normal macros with a virus. The macro virus replaces regular commands with the same name and runs when the command is selected.
Methods for runtime execution of text defined at runtime: Eval and Execute; Methods for executing scripts on remote machines; Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Functionality for embedding a VBScript engine in other applications, using a widely known language; CScript, the command line runner, provides options for: Interactive or batch mode
They have to some extent fallen into obsolescence following the advent of mouse-driven user interfaces and the availability of keyboard and mouse macros in applications, such as word processors and spreadsheets, making it possible to create application-sensitive keyboard macros. Keyboard macros can be used in massively multiplayer online role ...
Macros Templates Grouping Source Remarks xTests Yes Yes [95] Depends on STLSoft C & C++ Libraries xUnit++ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes, Test setup only Yes Yes, Suites and Attributes [170] Supports running tests concurrently. Macros are used for test setup only, not for test assertions. tinytest Apache 2: Yes Yes [89] Standalone, no dependencies ...
This can cause problems when trying to play back a macro if the user's desktop environment has changed. For example, if the user has changed their desktop resolution, moved icons, or moved the task bar, the mouse macro may not perform the way the user intended. That's one of the reasons for preferring keyboard macros over the mouse-oriented ones.
If the browser encountered a page specifying an ActiveX control via an OBJECT tag (the OBJECT tag was added to the HTML 3.2 specification by Charlie Kindel, the Microsoft representative to the W3C at the time [8]) it would automatically download and install the control with little or no user intervention. This made the web "richer" but provoked ...