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 ...

Some users have mentioned that their Windows computer could not shut down due to DDE Server Window. DDE Server is a built-in Windows utility that allows programs on your computer to communicate with ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...