Hi Tom,

More inline.

> On May 23, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Tom Cordle <thomaslcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Here’s the link as best I am able to determine from my download queue:
> 
> https://phoenixnap.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openofficeorg.mirror/4.1.5/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.5_MacOS_x86-64_install_en-US.dmg
>  
> <https://phoenixnap.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openofficeorg.mirror/4.1.5/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.5_MacOS_x86-64_install_en-US.dmg>
> 

I downloaded this and it validates to be the same as what was distributed 
originally.

> This would have been on or about the end of April. Hope that helps. Thanks 
> for the follow-up.
> 

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>>> On May 22, 2018, at 10:14 PM, Tom Cordle <thomaslcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Don’t know who to direct this to, but I thought someone should be aware of 
>>> a possible hack of the most recent version of OO (4.1.). A couple of days 
>>> ago, I downloaded that version from the Apache website, and was pleased to 
>>> see improvements in the Impress function. After several hours work, I saved 
>>> an Impress file, and noticed it was identified in the cue in what I assume 
>>> was Russian for Impress followed by OpenOffice. Strange, I thought.

Two things to look at:

(1) macOS System Preferences for Language & Region. What is the language?
(2) OpenOffice Preferences - Language Settings - Languages. What is the default 
language for documents?


>>> 
>>> I had written copy in that file in English, and when I opened the file 
>>> again, it was translated into Russian. That made me more than a little 
>>> suspicious, so I corrected the copy back to English, saved the file with a 
>>> different name, opened it, and same thing – English translated into Russian.
>>> 
>>> I’m not crazy, nor am I normally paranoid. But since then, I have received 
>>> three notices from Google of three attempts to sign into my Google email 
>>> account, all three thankfully unsuccessful. I have to date not observed any 
>>> other signs of a virus/hacking on any other apps or services.

I think that you should run a virus scan of your system.

Also which version of MacOSX or macOS are you using?


>>> 
>>> Needless to say, all this has left me very concerned – concerned enough 
>>> that I deleted all my recent Impress files and the OO application itself. 
>>> That currently leaves me without any word processing/presentation 
>>> application.
>>> 
>>> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Dave


>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Tom Cordle
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