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Macro virus for Staroffice discovered (Techworld)

Macro virus for Staroffice discovered (Techworld)

Posted Jun 1, 2006 8:22 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Macro virus for Staroffice discovered (Techworld) by Arker
Parent article: Macro virus for Staroffice discovered (Techworld)

Why not just do it the WordPerfect way?

AIUI, PerfectScript viruses are impossible. WordPerfect, despite having a pretty decent macro language, was immune to viruses until they licenced MS's VBA engine. And provided that engine isn't enabled, it's still immune :-)

Cheers,
Wol


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