Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice

news.com said:
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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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 ...

Offtopic

Thought Stardust is a magazine lol.

din said:
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 ?

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

din said:
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

which OSes are vulnerable to this virus?

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MetalheadGautham said:
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)

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

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

mavihs said:
hey, its not in the wild. good thing!!!

????????

The Unknown said:
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

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.