Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
Recently I installed OO32 on both my Windows machines (plus a Linux
machine).
Under Windows I have VirusBuster running.
In more or less regular intervals a little window opens in the right
lower corner of the screen, telling me (since I am running a Japanese
system, the message is in Japanese) that something called "soffice.bin"
is trying to access the system files and VirusBuster has blocked that
attempt.
And: VirusBuster marks this event as "highly dangerous".
This did NOT happen with what I used before: OOo2.3.
What is this all about?
IS OO32 actually dangerous?
What is this "soffice.bin" trying to do?
In other words ... what am I supposed to do about it?
Thank you.
Thomas
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Forgive my ignorance about using anti-virus software packages - I don't
use them and haven't since I last used MS more moons ago than I care to
count - but, most are "trainable" are they not? A given signature shows
up as "dangerous", but can be manually over-ridden by the user so that
future scans can either skip over that signature or can check it off
against its "white" list. This could therefore be down to:
(i) the anti-virus software you have doesn't "learn" - in which case, it
is no good. You will need an AV that can adapt to its changed environment.
(ii) the way that soffice is recorded in MS registery and good luck with
that: the MS registry is an exercise in obfuscation.
(iii) or install another AV system (remove the one you have first - they
tend not to play very nicely together) and rescan and see if the same
problem occurs. I think that there is some freebie AV which is pretty
good (AVG perhaps?), but I'm sure others here who use 'em could
recommend a viable alternative (other than Norton or McAfee).
HTH.
AG
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