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Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] cm0002 13 points 1 year ago

they normally started as some little script someone built to make their work faster.

It's me, I'm that guy lmfao, although by the time I left it was considerably more complex. I have "real" languages under my belt, but it was a banking environment and VBA was all I had (Which even that kinda surprised me lol).

I was hooked into the windows API and doing all sorts of stuff and yea before leaving I did distribute stand alone parts of it (The full system was a beast, 90% of my job was automated towards the end lololol)

Honestly, VBA is more powerful than people give it credit for, just a PITA to implement some things