Is Unix safe from StarOffice viruses?
Is Unix safe from StarOffice viruses?
We would like to install StarOffice (any version) on Unix Sun Solaris v8, but we need to know if StarOffice can infect a Unix workstation with a virus?
We don't run any virus program on the Sun Solaris v8 workstations. The workstations are Sun Blade 2000 workstations.
We plan to read Microsoft Word and Excel documents on StarOffice Writer and Calc. If the Microsoft documents had a virus could there be an issue on Unix Sun Solaris?
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] at [2007-11-25 22:51:19]
# 1
Hi reagado,normally not, because a virus infects the operating system and so it will be infected Windows and not Solaris .And also we never heard that StarOffice was infected by an virus .Anyway we can not ensure to 100 % that this will never be happen.
at 2007-7-5 17:06:46 >
# 2
Hi,
We run SAMBA and Star office on our UNIX servers.
Unix is not vulnerable to Windoze viruses, but can act as a carrier.
I use Sophos A/V on Unix, and run a cron job to
scan all the filesystems shared out by samba, and on th users home directories. I run another cron job to update the virus signatures.
I do not want someone saying my UNIX server infected a pc ;-)
