There’s nothing quite catches the imagination of the media like security threats, real or imaginary. I thought we’d heard the last of the so-called “BadBunny“, but we’re still seeing the story rehashed in the media. I’ve just had an email from a concerned user, so I thought I’d share the question and my reply:

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 21:29 -0500, someone wrote:
> I have a question, I have a vista laptop aand I want to install
> OpenOffice on it. Is yje bad bunny worm still a threat, and if so how
> can I spot it thank you for your time.

Never open any file (OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office, or anything else)
unless you are sure who it came from and you trust the sender. If you do
that, you are perfectly safe from “BadBunny” and similar so-called
“macro viruses”.

If you are in the habit of opening attachments or downloading files from
people you have never heard of, then there’s nothing OpenOffice.org or
Microsoft or any anti-virus company can do can protect you.

It’s like car manufacturers – they can fit the best brakes in the world,
but if you throw yourself in front of a car driving at sixty miles an
hour then you’re probably dead.

OpenOffice.org announcement on the Bad Bunny

Best wishes – John

Maybe we should press governments for public advertising campaigns about safe computing?

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