On 5/24/07, Pueblo Native <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The biggest problem I see with viruses is not that they are on a system, or not that they will even destroy a system (it's bad, but you can back up). My biggest problem is the fact that they can spread. What's more of a hassle: reinstalling one rogue system or trying to shut down a thousand systems that have been compromised and are now spreading themselves across the net. So here's my proposal. --eliminating any network access for a macro or for OO while a macro is running. You can download a file as a human, but while you are doing so macros are disabled. When you run the macros, OO will not attempt access of the Internet. I'd almost go so far as to disable any Internet functionality of OO, but I don't think anybody will buy that.
I doubt if this can be done. When a virus infects a system, it normally implants itself in the system first and may then run as a separate process. Therefore, even if the internet access of OO is disabled, the virus itself can spread unless you have some system-level protection like firewall. Here, OO is only a platform for the macro virus to start the first fire. I'm not a software people so my guess may be wrong. -- WANG, Xiaoyun Shanghai, China
