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OpenOffice is vulnerable - Avira warns against the first macro virus
Wed, 31 May 2006
Tettnang, 31 May 2006 - It is the first time that the experts detected a macro virus called “Stardust” in internet, which takes advantage of the Office-Suite OpenOffice for its attack. The moment the user opens the document template, the script that was written in StarBasic will infect all the following documents. This so called Proof-Of-Concept-Virus has not spread a lot so far and can only be executed on older versions of the StarOffice and OpenOffice. Current program versions are not affected hereby.
Avira recommends all users to update their antivirus software as soon as possible. AntiVir detected the virus called SB/Office.Stardust.A with its current version of the VDF.
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