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Don't Enable Macros

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Documents asking to 'enable content' are running an old trick.

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Office documents that demand you enable macros to view content are a decades-old malware tactic. Refusing to enable macros on unexpected documents defuses one of the most persistent attachment attacks.

“'Enable macros to continue' is malware asking for permission.”

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