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!