I recently helped my moms friend un- fuxor her computer after another evil friend wreaked havoc on it. As she was restoring some excel files from a back-up, a window popped up. It said something to the effect of: my docs/excel/{name of file} contains macros, macros may contain virus, always safe to disable them. It also said something about possibly losing some functionality without macros. ( I'm paraphrasing, cuz she told me this over the phone).
So I'm wondering:
1.) what are macros?
2.) how could they contain a virus?
3.) will she be able to update these files monthly, as she needs to, if macros are disabled?
4.) this window pops up everytime she tries to open these files and it never did before. Is this possibly a windows precaution since this stuff came off a cd?
So I'm wondering:
1.) what are macros?
2.) how could they contain a virus?
3.) will she be able to update these files monthly, as she needs to, if macros are disabled?
4.) this window pops up everytime she tries to open these files and it never did before. Is this possibly a windows precaution since this stuff came off a cd?