Researchers have spotted Locky ransomware infections emanating from the Necurs botnet via Word attachments using a DDE technique that Microsoft says is an Office feature and does not merit a security ...

Microsoft published guidance for Windows admins on how to safely disable Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) fields in Office that are being used to spread malware in email-based attacks. Despite a rash of ...

Before you run these examples, you must first invoke Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, and open the spreadsheet or document used in the example. Note: DDE examples are included in the host-specific ...

The other tells Excel to ignore DDE requests coming from elsewhere on the machine. All of this came as quite a surprise to me because Microsoft didn’t bother to document any of it in this month’s ...

As part of the December 2017 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has shipped an Office update that disables the DDE feature in Word applications, after several malware campaigns have abused this feature to ...

Adobe Acrobat is Adobe’s PDF software used to save, edit, and read PDF files. As you use Adobe Acrobat you may get an error message Acrobat failed to connect to a ...

The "DDE Server Window" error is a frustrating issue that prevents your Windows PC from shutting down properly, often displaying an error message like "DDE Server ...

These examples use Microsoft Excel as the DDE server, but any application that supports DDE as a server can communicate with the SAS System. Before you run most of these examples, you must first ...