I found something entertaining on a forum for one of the Anti-Virus programs out there.
AVG posted something in response to a person using their Free version of AVG. They consider Office Macro viruses "obsolete". By this, their solution for documents infected with the macro virus should either be deleted or the users who want to keep them, should clean the documents themselves, as the current version of Office Suite programs have protection against Macro Viruses as long as people keep the security high enough to block the execution of Macros.
This is great, but big draw back on this concept. The target audience their product is for cheap people... And most of them will also be non-technical people. Non-technical people who will look at you and go, "Buh?" as to how to do this.
As much as it is 'obsolete', people sometimes might want the program to clean it if it can. What if it was a bunch of old documents that have the virus? I mean, there are people who do have old files and heck, I have seen some people who have not activated anti-virus on their laptops cause they didn't know they had to.
Well, I can understand that a free AV solution isn't suppose to be fully featured, but I think in that same post, this is also how their paid version works. Yikes. I hope a lot of you people don't have old office files saved somewhere and need them again. Cause AVG won't help you with them.
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