Hi,
I use OpenOffice.org 2.02 for Linux, Windows XP, and Mac OS X (both
the X11 version and NeoOffice) and have been using it for more than 2
years.
It has come to my attention that a virus has been made that can
infect both OpenOffice.org and Star Office in the form of a Star
Basic m
In so far that the 'proof of concept' has managed to open a new
document, and download an www image IMHO does not constitute a virus.
The same thing can be achieved by a user by creating a hyperlink
within a document then sending it to there friends.
There is no proof, that this can then cause da
Paul wrote:
> There is no proof, that this can then cause damage to the OS, nor
> replicate itself, email its friends, etc...
Now I know what all the 'How do I replace Outlook?' posts are about.
Clearly OOo isn't a 'real' office suite until we have macro viruses that
can propagate via an integrat
From: Andrew Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 19:23:35 -0400
>It has come to my attention that a virus has been made that can
> infect both OpenOffice.org and Star Office in the form of a Star
> Basic macro. The story where I read this is below:
>
Pavel Janík wrote:
>From: Andrew Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 19:23:35 -0400
>
>> It has come to my attention that a virus has been made that can
>> infect both OpenOffice.org and Star Office in the form of a Star
>> Basic macro. The story where I
Mathias Bauer wrote:
So the only "concept" that this alleged virus can prove is that a macro
gets executed when the users allow it. Wow, great stuff.
And quite different from virusses in other office-suite's documents
headers, that can run without user any interaction ...
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Cor Nouws
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Cor Nouws wrote:
> Mathias Bauer wrote:
>
>> So the only "concept" that this alleged virus can prove is that a macro
>> gets executed when the users allow it. Wow, great stuff.
>
> And quite different from virusses in other office-suite's documents
> headers, that can run without user any inter
Le lundi 05 juin 2006 à 16:00 +0200, Mathias Bauer a écrit :
> If you are talking about MS Office: IIRC current versions of it treat
> macros the same way as OOo so that by default no macro gets executed
> without explicit user permission.
>
> I assume that the higher default security level of MS
