is it safe to open an excel document from a scammer? what's the worst that can happen?
Is it safe to open an excel document from a scammer? what's the worst that can happen?
Adam Allen
Chase Baker
>open document
>macro activates
>downloads virus on your drive
If the scammer knows his shit that is
Owen Hernandez
no way to prevent that?
Chase Perez
Yeah. Not opening it
Cameron Russell
disable the micro thing
Logan Morris
how do i do that on mac?
Tyler Gutierrez
install homebrew and php
Dylan Cox
Hudson Hill
If you're just looking for the data in the document, you could convert it to a text file like csv or tsv.
If you really need to open the original file, you could disable macros and for extra safety open it in a VM.
Justin Powell
Open the excel as a xml , rename the file from .xlsx to .zip and get what you want from there, and delete the weird shit / macros
Landon Clark
i think i got it. oof
Luke Cruz
Show us what's in the document
Ian Moore
some stupid shit. it doesn't even have macros (i got no notifications)
William Smith
He tried to make a receipt in excel
Isaac Walker
So future reference, if it's an xls or xlsx file, it doesn't contain macros so calm your fuckin tits and just open the file. Only xlm and xlsm files contain macros, which yeah, you should assiduously avoid opening those files if you aren't familiar with the source.
Secondly you're in a mac so any pajeet who's writing a virus whose delivery vector is a fucking excel file isn't gonna have much luck actually infecting your system with anything so once again calm your fuckin tits.
Jack Kelly
thanks for that information
Dominic Walker
What if I open it on Linux in open office?
Adrian Morales
A file extension doesn't mean anything you retards. pic related
Levi Phillips
Security through mediocrity
Libre Office sucks so much that it won't be able to load the macros properly
Nathaniel Lee
SHABBAT SHALOM BAYBEE. AINT NOTHIN BUT A MATZO BALL
Noah Sanchez
How would someone even go about doing this? I wouldn't think Excel would have access to system resources. Some sort of buffer overflow vulnerability? Doesn't seem likely to me. Especially since OP is using Mac, the odds seems nill to me (using a macro with a Microsoft product to compromise a Unix based system). If the scammer is that L33t he should be ransoming hospitals, not bothering some Mac fag.