The report was written by researchers at the French Ministry of Defense's Signal Corps and is set to be published in the Journal in Computer Virology, a Paris-based academic journal for computer scientists.Ī number of the problems described in the report are related to the basic design of the software. "The viral hazard attached to is at least as high as that for the Microsoft Office suite, and even higher when considering some. The paper describes four proof-of-concept viruses that illustrate how maliciously encoded macros and templates could be created to compromise systems running the open-source software. "This suite is up to now still vulnerable to many potential malware attacks," they wrote. "The general security of OpenOffice is insufficient," the researchers wrote in a paper titled "In-Depth Analysis of the Viral Threats With Documents." Although Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite is now being targeted by hackers, researchers at the French Ministry of Defense say users of the software may be at even greater risk from computer viruses.
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