I'm forever entertained by the number of news people who will call an
exploit for a single program a "Linux" virus/worm/etc.  This thing uses
known vulnerabilities in outdated versions of BIND, versions that have
long since been declared EOL by the ISC.  It's an elegant piece of work,
mind you, and I'm both impressed and scared.  I'm also not running any
public BIND boxen with versions that old.  It's just funny how the
latest Word macro virus isn't described as a "Windows virus", but as a
"Word virus".  This particular worm has zilch to do with "Linux".
 
-john
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