Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice

[nileshgr]

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to Microsoft's Office productivity suite.

The virus, dubbed Stardust, is capable of infecting OpenOffice and StarOffice, which is sold by Sun Microsystems, a Kaspersky Lab researcher wrote on the Russian company's Viruslist Web site on Tuesday.

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[shadow2get]

That's bad news.
Anyway its just a macro-virus & does not harm the computer.

I really don't understand why they are targeting
Open Source Software ? I think the Virus Developer must be a Hardcore follower of Microsoft ...

 

[din]

Offtopic

Thought Stardust is a magazine lol.

 

[nileshgr]

Offtopic

Thought Stardust is a magazine lol.

what do you mean by offtopic ??
this news was found on cyberciti.biz ; news.com ; digg.com
now say this is not popular ?

 

[din]

Oh no ! Sorry for the confusion.

Offtopic, I meant I am going offtopic on my reply. And there is a filmi magazine - Stardust.

Never meant the news / source is offtopic. Hope it clears

 

[nileshgr]

Oh no ! Sorry for the confusion.

Offtopic, I meant I am going offtopic on my reply. And there is a filmi magazine - Stardust.

Never meant the news / source is offtopic. Hope it clears

lol

 

[MetalheadGautham]

which OSes are vulnerable to this virus?

 

[shadow2get]

which OSes are vulnerable to this virus?

Since this is a macro virus & written in StarBasic language... part of OpenOffice.org. It will affect all operating systems OpenOffice.org supports.

This following info is from Symantec:
Systems Affected: Linux, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP

I think that answers your query.

Also, Different AV programs detect it as follows:

* SBasic.Stardust.A!int (Symantec)
* StarOffice/StarDust.intd (McAfee)
* StarOffice/Stardust.A (ESET)
* Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.a (Kaspersky)
* XML_DUSTAR.A (Trend Micro)

 

[nileshgr]

any ways, its not going to do any harm to the Linux system where OOO is used maximally.

 

[mavihs]

hey, its not in the wild. good thing!!!

 

[nileshgr]

hey, its not in the wild. good thing!!!

????????

 

[MetalheadGautham]

any ways, its not going to do any harm to the Linux system where OOO is used maximally.

but shadow2get quotes from symmentec that even Linux is affected

 

[NucleusKore]

Its not the end of the world, they'll patch it soon. The point is you do not need a "real time scanner" eating have your processor and RAM to protect your system.