May 31st, 2006 @ 7:46 pm

OpenOffice Virus

Just saw this in an email from ZDNet News:

Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to Microsoft's Office productivity suite.

The virus, dubbed Stardust, is capable of infecting OpenOffice and StarOffice, which is sold by Sun Microsystems, a Kaspersky Lab researcher wrote on the Russian company's Viruslist Web site on Tuesday.

"Stardust is a macro virus written for StarOffice, the first one I've seen," the researcher wrote. "Macro viruses usually infect MS Office applications."

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I use OpenOffice.org and love it. It is a wonderful program. I can save and open MSWord documents, PDF files, Excel and Powerpoint documents. I think it is a good thing that someone wrote a virus for it. Kinda like when Mac had their first.






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