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First StarOffice Virus Sighted

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the batten-down-the-hatches-maties dept.

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."

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  1. Auto Pron Download by 93,000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    . . . It downloads an image file with adult content from the Internet and opens that file in a new document . . .

    Automatically? Shouldn't this be considered a feature rather than a virus?

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    Sweet informative mod.
  2. Downloads "adult" content... by locokamil · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This thing downloads adult content and displays it. And this is a bad thing for us dorks because...