[Gloucs] Bad news for Linux

[paul cooke]

On Thursday 20 April 2006 11:06, Christian Trapp wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It was just a matter of time till somebody would create a virus for Linux
> :(
>
> Original message from http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog
>
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> Crossplatform virus - the latest proof of concept
>
>   Kostya     	  April 07, 2006 | 07:32  GMT
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> comments (8)
> We?ve received a new sample: another cross platform virus. This sample
> is the latest attempt to create malicious code which will infect both
> Linux and Win32 systems. It?s therefore been given a double name:
> Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a

ah, this would be the one that only works on Linux if you use the latest 
Kernel patch...

It showed up a bug in the kernel because it wasn't working and Linus has fixed 
the kernel bug and the virus can now run...