The malware known as PowerPoint has infected millions of systems worldwide and has cost businesses, NGO’s and governments untold billions in lost productivity.

The malware known as PowerPoint has infected millions of systems worldwide and has cost businesses, NGO’s and governments untold billions in lost productivity. PowerPoint files seem to be self-spawning and capable of infinite replication in the wild. Small variations in the PowerPoint files forces administrators to keep endless permutations of these highly virulent files. PowerPoint is often introduced into an organization by highly sophisticated threat actors using deeply customized versions of the software. McKinsey, BCG, and Bain deploy the PowerPoint malware to a multiplicity of customers whose human capital and infrastructure become mired in endless recursive loops known as PowerPoint cycles. The actual introduction of PowerPoint is typically merely incidental to these threat actors ambitions. Most often they derive substantial portions of their income by reselling organizations intellectual property which they already own. Once the organizations systems become bogged in ever more bloated PowerPoint files productivity plummets. Morale drops among employees and management often re-engages the threat actors to attempt to right the ship. The PowerPoint Malware is seemingly unstoppable at this point. Any computers that contain it should be air gapped and protected by highly restricted physical access.