VBA Virus?

[speakers_86]

Has anyone every encountered malicious coding in vba? If you have, what does it do? What effects does it have? I'm just curious because I just read an introductory book on viruses, Viruses for Dummies. It was very basic, but touched on how there can be malicious coding in anything with VBA. That's not exactly news to me, but I've never seen anything intentionally malicious.

 

[Pat Hartman]

I haven't either. I won't say that Access is imune from them but virus developers (if you want to call them that) tend to concentrate on options that will distribute their infections to the widest possible audience. Access doesn't really have a wide audience in the wild and so isn't a particularly good transport method. You've probably never gotten a message with a database attachment from a stranger telling you to open the database and see the "cool" whatever.

 

[NigelShaw]

Hi

to be fair, if there is ever a chance that you download a db be it for helping on here or looking at sample, surely as a developer, you would not just open it without first checking it. If i dl a file from here, i first shift scan it with essentials, then shift open it to look at the code and only then once im happy, would i run it.

with VBA, there are no hidden codes. the code is in the vb window and if you are good with code, you would almost immediately see things that could cause harm i.e

registry
email function
shell

etc


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