OpenOffice Attracts its First Virus (and the press notices)

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Jun 1, 2006 7:15 PM EDT
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Two weeks ago, a Word Trojan with minimal impact was in the news, and now its StarOffice's turn, having taken a single "proof of concept" hit. So far, the "Stardust" virus seems to be bigger news.

So far, the news about the ODF software virus is running ahead of the Word Trojan, with 28 stories in the first day, on a Google News search of "Stardust AND openoffice OR staroffice," as against only 11 in the same time period fo "word AND ginwui." The Web seems to find it a lot more interesting, too, with 157,000 hits in the first day, while the Word Trojan is at 195,000 hits after two almost two weeks.

So what do the scribes say?

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