Why macro viruses?
During later years macro viruses permanently occupied top positions in the lists of most common viruses. According to International Computer Security Association (www.icsa.net) members of this class of computer “fauna” constitute two thirds of all the “wild” computer viruses. According to Kaspersky Lab’s statistics this figure is smaller (around 55%) but it still indicates the decided prevalence of macro viruses. This prevalence can be explained: First: Objects that can be infected with these viruses (i.e. documents created with Office applications) are very popular among users. Today there very few computer users that do not use the text processor, spreadsheet editor, database processing system or presentation wizard for their day-to-day operations. Second: The degree of protection that is provided by the built-in anti-virus system of these applications is very low. Despite all the statements of Microsoft experts that in MS Office 2000 this issue was changed for the better, our many y
