macro stripper

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Onno Tasler

Hello everyone!

I am looking for a program that simply deletes all macros from MS Office
files without doing anything else.

While I could do so by converting all files to RTF/CSV, I hope there is
a more comfortable way. Is such a program available for MS Windows?
 
I am looking for a program that simply deletes all macros from MS Office
files without doing anything else.
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Not 'without doing anything else', but: Many Antivirus programs have an
option to delete all macros from office documents. Look at the /REMOVEALL
switch of f-prot as an example.

I never tested this one. (Never was in need to do so...) So I can't say
anything about its reliability.

BeAr
 
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson scribebat:
Not 'without doing anything else', but: Many Antivirus programs have an
option to delete all macros from office documents. Look at the /REMOVEALL
switch of f-prot as an example.
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As far as I remember, F-Prot removes only macros when at least one
probably malicious macro was found in that document. Without /REMOVEALL
it only deletes the malicious macro.

Oh, and by 'without doing anything else' I did not mean that the program
must not do anything else, but that the documents should not be changed
otherwise, except for the macros.
 
As far as I remember, F-Prot removes only macros when at least one
probably malicious macro was found in that document. Without /REMOVEALL
it only deletes the malicious macro.
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From the documentation:
| /REMOVEALL
| Removes all macros from all documents. Useful if you encounter a new
| macro virus, and you know that the document did not contain any macros
| before it got infected.

There are two other options which are a bit more cautious on deletion:
| /REMOVENEW
| If a new variant of a macro virus is found in a document, all macros are
| removed from that particular document.
| /SAFEREMOVE
| Removes all macros from documents, if a known virus is found.

Maybe you remember those? But anyway: You can backup your documents and
just give f-prot a try.
Oh, and by 'without doing anything else' I did not mean that the program
must not do anything else, but that the documents should not be changed
otherwise, except for the macros.
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Sure you meant this! ;-)

BeAr
 
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson scribebat:
Maybe you remember those? But anyway: You can backup your documents and
just give f-prot a try.
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Might be, but I will give it a try. I mean, I always have a backup of my
files and can test on some which are not important anyway. :)
 
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