Bug#563756: /usr/bin/ooimpress: ..Microsoft Powerpoint chainmail hijacks ooimpress, crossflatform virus?
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:50:19 +0100, Arnt wrote in message
<20100105095019.2fe91a6f@a45.fmb.no>:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:45:09 +0100, Rene wrote in message
> <20100105034509.GD10923@rene-engelhard.de>:
>
> > tag 563756 + moreinfo
> > thanks
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:54:06AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > > ...opening the file either with varianst on
> > > "ooimpress /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps &"
> >
> > Which file? There's none attached. Can you please be more
> > precise for those who don't follow M$ crap (but see below)?
>
> ..correct, I wanted to make sure you wanted it first, attached
> hereto and sent to Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> further
> details in my next response.
..I'll try.
> > > or from the menu system in ooimpress, produces the
> > > same reproducible result; ooimpress goes full screen
> > > showing the chainmail, and dies promptly if you pick
> > > "End the presentation" from the right click menu.
> >
> > >From google results (which are pretty indecisive), it seems
> > that PowerPoint should be able to send mails? Where is
> > the advisory/mentioning of this?
..pass, I ditched Microsoft Wintendo 95 on 26 re-installs 12 years
ago that cost me 2 years research data on thermochemical gasification,
so I moved on to SuSE 5.2, and, I got /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps from
what initially looked like a buddy's happy-new-year mail to me and a
bunch of people, and then, like some kinda cross-platform virus.
> > Why do you think that OOo does this?
..I picked ooimpress next because catppt came up with: ...
arnt@a45:~ $ catppt /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps
Estratégico
1_Estratégico
arnt@a45:~ $
...and I could not get ooimpress windowed and under my control.
The chainmail text is in Norwegian and contains the usual
chainmail bullshit promises and bullshit threats of bad luck.
> > (No, playing the presentation and quitting, which is the point of
> > pps doesn't make it do that).
..I lost you totally here: I am not aware of any mail going out
from my box, nor from ooimpress, I got the very firm impression
/tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps had managed to deny me control over
ooimpress on my damned box.
> > > ...I found _no_ way of windowing or closing the chainmail
> > > without also killing ooimpress. Anyone else wanna try it?:
> >
> > Then you didn't try (or look) hard enough. pps is just a ppt +
> > autoplay. (So as said in 548959 a mv just does it)
..huh? Am I, by OOo design policy, not _supposed_
to run a pps file in ooimpress in e.g. a window???
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
Reply to: