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First OpenOffice virus emerges

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APCmag.com; By Dan Warne 		Mail this story
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Pop the champagne corks, Microsoft. The first OpenOffice virus has emerged, displaying an indecent pic of a guy in a bunny suit fornicating with a girl in the woods.

But if you're not so much into bunnies, this may tickle your cotton-ball tail: the virus is cross-platform, tailoring itself to whatever platform OpenOffice is running on.

For example, on Windows it drops Javascript files as well as using MiRC to propagate, on OS X, Rubyscript, and on Linux, Python and Pearl. APCmag.com has the lowdown including a screenshot of the indecent pic (the safe for work part anyway.)

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Comments (7)

Bob_Robertson ·
VIral porn. Unfortunately, all the pictures I've found just show the bunny head. Oh sure, that's funny, but so what?
Aladdin_Sane ·
"Badbunny-A"

I saw http://www.linux.org/news/2007/05/22/0010.html this morning on linux.org.

"OpenOffice worm downloads bunny porn"

"Publication: iTNews Australia Date: May 22 2007 Reporter: Robert Jaques"

Quoting:"A newly-discovered worm targeting OpenOffice attempts to download indecent JPEG images onto compromised Windows, Mac and Linux PCs.

Sophos warned today that Badbunny-A, a macro worm for OpenOffice/StarBasic that also drops scripts in other languages, downloads pictures of a man wearing a bunny suit performing a sexual act in woodland."


I did not post it here or elsewhere, while I find it amusing, I'm not sure everybody will.

The story title and lead pretty much said all I needed to know.
Bob_Robertson ·
that...was...a...joke



Maybe I should stick to anarcho-capitalist ravings. People seem to understand them better than humor.
tracyanne ·
It's alright Bob ::pat:: ::pat:: I understand.
tuxchick ·
Did you hear the one about the Linux geeks?

That's not funny. >:-(
Sander_Marechal ·
Quoting:The story title and lead pretty much said all I needed to know.


Both the title and the lead are hyped. It's just a proof-of-concept and it's not out in the wild.

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