Macro-enabled Office documents are now being blocked for domains protected by our premium spam filtering service. What are macro enabled office documents? Microsoft Office documents may have macros embedded with them. The design allowed for simple programs to be embedded with an MS Office document to provide additional functions. Office documents that are macro enabled […]
We’ve almost completed our move of client computers to our new ERA v6 server. ERA6 is dramatically different than previous versions as it now uses a client agent. Previously, the AV program would check in at a configured interval to receive new ‘instructions’. Instructions would be things like scan your computer now or set this […]
Crypto was just the beginning. We’re seeing a recent resurgence in ransomware. Ransomware will encrypt files and demand payment in order to provide the key to decrypt them. The latest iterations browse for network shares and encrypt a wider range of files. The encryption strength is quite strong and breaking it isn’t an option with […]