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Okay, I'm getting this annoyingly bizarre message whenever my java is prompting me to update. For some insane reason it insists that I can get a "free" copy of Open Office for downloading the update.

A free copy of open-source software. Naturally this sets off all the red-flags as a potential virus or spyware of some sort, but nothing turns up in my Spybot scans. Does anyone know of anything similar to this that might be caused by a trojan or other virus of some sort?

General Zod wrote:Okay, I'm getting this annoyingly bizarre message whenever my java is prompting me to update. For some insane reason it insists that I can get a "free" copy of Open Office for downloading the update.

A free copy of open-source software. Naturally this sets off all the red-flags as a potential virus or spyware of some sort, but nothing turns up in my Spybot scans. Does anyone know of anything similar to this that might be caused by a trojan or other virus of some sort?

I think you're being paranoid. OpenOffice has been related to Sun for a long time, from back when it was called StarOffice.

Darth Wong wrote: I think you're being paranoid. OpenOffice has been related to Sun for a long time, from back when it was called StarOffice.

It could be. It's just that anything advertising a "free" copy of open source software for doing stuff sets off all the alarms. So I wanted to make sure whether it was just me or not.

I've gotten this from freshly-built machines at work. When Java asks you to update it tries to offer you a "free" copy of OpenOffice.

It's not spyware, or else we have an epidemic.