Of course, there are a few caveats behind the headlines. One minor thing is that the alleged virus -- called Virus.Linux.Bi.a -- being trumpeted far and wide by Kaspersky Lab is not really a virus, but rather "proof of concept" code, designed to show that such a virus could be written.

A second caveat is that for it to work on Linux, a user has to download the program and then execute it, and even then, it can only "infect" files in the same directory the program is in.

It still makes a good read.

Check out these articles here

http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?weblogid=183651915
http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/1752213

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