[plug] Macro viruses target OpenOffice and StarOffice

[Daniel Pearson]

http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=38449&eid=4&edate=20060601

"Macro viruses haven't been in the headlines since the late 1990s, but 
that changed earlier this week when Kaspersky Lab revealed its discovery 
of a proof of concept macro that targets the open source applications 
OpenOffice and StarOffice.

Although the macro viruses of old targeted Microsoft Office 
applications, the recently discovered proof of concept virus -- which 
Kaspersky named Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.A -- is the first that is 
"theoretically capable" of infecting StarOffice and OpenOffice, 
according to a post on Kaspersky's Viruslist.com blog."

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