Experts warn of Linux/Windows virus (vnunet)
[Posted June 5, 2002 by corbet]
Much fuss is being made about the new "Simile" virus which, it is said, can infect both Windows and Linux systems.
This vnunet article at least has captured an important point:
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Linux users can even sit back smugly and consider themselves secure, as long
as they do not log in as root and run dodgy email attachments."
Very few Linux users, of course, would do such a thing...
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