Microsoft Office 2010 knows there are Word-based macro viruses out there. It's so protective, in fact, it can be a bit annoying when you're trying to open Outlook attachments from co-workers. Tech ...

I will never forget a memo I received back in the late 1990s. At the time, I was working as an author for a tech journal. The company I worked for sent out a memo warning us to be careful about ...

Microsoft has made its new "Safe Documents" feature generally available for all Office 365 customers, the company announced last night. The new Safe Documents feature, which launched in a private ...

When you go on to open a Microsoft Office file, you may have noticed that it is opened in Protected View. When files are opened in Protected View, you can read them, with minimal risks to your Windows ...

Microsoft PowerPoint has several options that put any presentation in a "read-only" format that enables viewing and printing, but not editing. These are practical for several reasons, depending on ...

Sometimes you may need to share files with people outside your organization but restrict them from making any changes to them. Office applications like Excel support Protected View that restricts ...

Security researchers have spotted a booby-trapped PowerPoint file that will download malware to a computer whenever a victim hovers a link, no macro scripts required. Hello, Please see attached ...

Microsoft released its batch of monthly security updates this month covering 73 vulnerabilities, including two zero-day flaws exploited in the wild. While organizations should prioritize all critical ...