Stardust Nasty Macro Application for OpenOffice.org
Slashdot
reported Kaspersky labs discovering
the
Stardust "nasty macro application"
for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org
This is not really a virus, it is a nasty macro application. If you are foolish
enough to agree to run it without checking what it does, you will suffer the
consequences...
Not many technical details in the above links, but
TechWack
says the following:
Antivirus firm Kaspersky is calling the virus "Stardust". This virus is
basically contained in a StarOffice document that uses macros and then infects
a global template, which is used by the application to generate new documents.
If a victim opens the file carrying this virus, Stardust copies it into the
global template and all contained in a StarOffice document that uses macros
and then infects a global template gets infected by it used by that copy of
the software.
Of course (as paveljanik pointed out I hadn't said in the original version of
this entry),
this is all nothing to be afraid of. I only linked the
above information because there are no actual details about this perceived
problem, but I'm not saying it's actually a serious problem!