Re: [SLE] Viruses on Windows documents executed in Linux

Philipp Thomas writes:

The only possible viruses in a document would be macro viruses and AFAIK OOo doesn't convert macros.

A multimedia file may cause a buffer overflow which can be used to activate a virus embedded there. In this case, the virus would survive the conversion from MS-Word to OOo and back since multimedia files (JPEG images, sounds, ...) included in office documents are not converted. Holes in image processing libraries were reported but I've never heard about a virus which uses them so this possibility is rather theoretical. -- A.M.