The UK’s leading freebie newspaper, the Metro, is all excited about OpenOffice.org. Why? because it is a free alternative to Microsoft’s Office product? Not exactly – let’s have it in Metro’s own tabloid text:

Bad bunny sex virus hits computers

A ‘bad bunny’ worm that downloads a graphic picture of a man wearing a bunny suit is infecting computers, an IT security firm has warned.
The Badbunny-A worm attempts to display a JPEG of an ‘indecent’ image of the man performing a sexual act in woodland.
The IT security firm Sophos said it affects the open source office suite OpenOffice/StarBasic and targets Windows, Mac and Linux computers.

Computing has a fuller and unfortunately far less exciting story. Someone has emailed an OpenOffice.org Draw file to an anti-virus company. The file contains a macro which is the alleged worm.

It sounds very like last year’s non-virus. Again we have a mysterious email to an anti-virus company, which then gets lots of free publicity for protecting its customers against this so-called threat.

Ah well, no doubt the phone will start ringing soon.

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