May 22
APC Magazine informs us that the first Open Office worm has been spotted. It could affect Windows, Mac and Linux machines.
The OpenOffice worm uses the inbuilt StarBasic scripting language in the office suite to save scripts to disk in several other languages.
But it is considered to be a low threat and it has not been discovered in the wild.
It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux computers, but anti-malware vendor Sophos admits it poses a low threat, especially as it’s only a proof-of-concept that hasn’t actually been discovered ‘in the wild’.
