Stardust Nasty Macro Application for OpenOffice.org

Posted by: david 18 years, 6 months ago

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Slashdot reported Kaspersky labs discovering the Stardust "nasty macro application" for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org
This is not really a virus, it is a nasty macro application. If you are foolish enough to agree to run it without checking what it does, you will suffer the consequences...
Not many technical details in the above links, but TechWack says the following:
Antivirus firm Kaspersky is calling the virus "Stardust". This virus is basically contained in a StarOffice document that uses macros and then infects a global template, which is used by the application to generate new documents. If a victim opens the file carrying this virus, Stardust copies it into the global template and all contained in a StarOffice document that uses macros and then infects a global template gets infected by it used by that copy of the software.

Of course (as paveljanik pointed out I hadn't said in the original version of this entry), this is all nothing to be afraid of. I only linked the above information because there are no actual details about this perceived problem, but I'm not saying it's actually a serious problem!
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