EXECUTING MACRO IN A HOST APPLICATION One way of scripting an application is to run the macro script inside the application. There are several ways macros can be executed in an application.

Your script can manipulate data, perform common Excel functions such as graph creation or automatically input data into specific cells. Only Visual Basic code can be used with the VBA editor.

Malicious Office files with attached macro scripts that download malware are usually referred in the infosec industry as "macro malware." On Windows, macro malware has been around since the 90s.

A new antivirus and Office 365 integration from Microsoft allows for scanning malicious macro scripts written in XLM at runtime.

The User Script Compiler converts your Greasemonkey scripts into full-fledged Firefox extensions. I gave it a try with the Gmail Macros script described in my Gmail master feature (it's just a ...