Security News > 2022 > July > Microsoft says decision to unblock Office macros is temporary

Microsoft says last week's decision to roll back VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents is only a temporary change.

Redmond announced in February that Microsoft Office would automatically block VBA macros in all documents downloaded from the Internet after a rollout stage between April and June.

This again leaves Windows and Microsoft Office users exposed to attacks launched via Office documents with embedded malicious macros.

While the company revealed the change to admins following M365 message center updates, it failed to make a public announcement and updated the original notification to say it was a temporary rollback only after customers found Office macro blocking was no longer enabled.

Microsoft pinned the temporary rollback of this much-awaited Office security boost on user feedback and is yet to reveal what it wants to change to improve usability.

Office users who still want automatic blocking of macros in downloaded Microsoft Office files enabled on their systems can read our easy-to-follow tutorial here.

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