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First StarOffice Virus Sighted
Sam Haine '95 writes "News.com is reporting on the creation of Stardust, a virus which uses macros to attack StarOffice, Sun's office suite. The malware was written as a proof-of-concept code to show what might be possible rather than as a serious attempt to create a new attack vector." From the article: "The pest is written in Star Basic. It downloads an image file with adult content from the Internet and opens that file in a new document, according to Kaspersky's posting."
It downloads an image file with adult content from the Internet and opens that file in a new document, according to Kaspersky's posting.
I don't call that a virus, I call it a feature.
Hopefully the next version will allow you to enter keywords to guide the image downloader.
If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
It downloads an image file with adult content from the Internet and opens that file in a new document
That's no virus, that's a productivity tool!
This guy's the limit!
Me? Looking at porn at work? Noooo, sorry, must be that virus goin' round.
A heartfelt THANK YOU to the autor!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What? No link to the "adult content?"
be careful what you wish for... the 'adult content' could be goatse
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
Both StarOffice users have been contacted and were warned to be careful.
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