Re: Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice -- PCTECH

Considering the target, one would wonder if the virus author hailed from
a certain state in the pacific northwest. :)


John A. Jones, CISSP
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-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 1:38 PM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice

From: QSCANFSCTL

So far, Stardust is a proof-of-concept virus, which means that it was 
created to demonstrate that an OpenOffice virus is possible. The virus

has not been sent out in the wild and is not actually attacking 
people's systems.


Does anybody read this the way I do?  That basically the folks in the
lab created this virus and are now warning us about it?  What's even
scarier is the strange wording "has not been sent out in the wild".  I
hope it was supposed to read "has not been SEEN out in the wild,"
becausw otherwise it certainly raises an interesting question.

I've long said that antivirus companies have a vested interest in seeing
viruses proliferate.  The above sentence may just be a rather pointed
Freudian slip, but still......

Joe


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