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You can do crazy shit in excel. After someone opens an excel sheet - download a webpage and save it to disk? no problem. Lets load other excel files in memory a
by ransom1538 9y ago
You can do crazy shit in excel. After someone opens an excel sheet - download a webpage and save it to disk? no problem. Lets load other excel files in memory and run their scripts too! Don't worry about your computer fan - while we scan your disk for stuff. Just state "On Error Resume Next" and start scanning hardware. Company email accounts are stuffed with one off sketchy excel attachments.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27419804/vba-excel-download-webpage-complete https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27419804/vba-excel-downl...
- lukateake 9y agoWhen you put it like that, ransom1538, I'm not going to click the link!
- tinus_hn 9y agoThe idea is that general Excel files do not run macros. They need to be saved with a special extension and you need to manually approve macros, with warnings if the file is in a location where other users can write to the file. I have no idea how watertight this is though, it’s Microsoft quality (and some of the most ancient code they have) so I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.