Re: Stardust virus lands on OpenOffice

Joe,

You have a point about the vested interest of the anti-virus companies.  I
hadn't thought of that before but thanks for giving me something else to
keep me awake at night.  <g>  Personally, I think that it's great that they
did a proof of concept that such a virus is possible.  I also think that
they should quietly take steps to catch such viruses, notify the authors,
and not publicize that it's possible because that gives ideas to those who
aren't interest in the concept as much as the real deal.  Since OpenOffice
is open-source that changes things a bit, but still...

Dave Parnin
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Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx





                                                                                
                                                       
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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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