With a nod to the past success of macro viruses, more than a quarter of all document malware now spreads via Microsoft's Visual Basic scripting language.

During the talk, Vick demonstrated Microsoft Excel hosting Visual Basic. He displayed a scripting pane in Excel that automated Excel and used the Visual Basic engine.

Sometime in the past few hours, Microsoft posted official warnings about an 'invalid procedure call error' associated with August patches for all versions of Windows, from Win7 onward, and ...