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Honestly, I wonder if VBA's most effective security feature has been its bad reputation. There's so much access to inexplicably vast swaths of the Windows ecosy
by nabilhat 5y ago
Honestly, I wonder if VBA's most effective security feature has been its bad reputation. There's so much access to inexplicably vast swaths of the Windows ecosystem, combined with a nearly perfect consensus of users who have no idea what a macro is, that it's kind of surprising that VBA hacking isn't more ubiquitous. Security through obscurity via popular loathing?
- gh02t 5y agoVBA viruses were quite prevalent for a while, though mostly primitive. The mitigation strategies put in place were not perfect but they were effective enough to move malicious actors towards more attractive vectors.
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- joenathanone 5y agoI made an ‘Execel App’, using power query to connect to web data sources and VBA to interact with the local OS and file system, what I was able to accomplish, in my mind was amazing. I hate that these changes are necessary for security because how easy VBA is to learn and how powerful it is, it is sad to say goodbye to.