>>http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/06/13/picture.virus.ap/index.html
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>I've head of no reports of it in the wild, so how'd they get a hold of it? I think this puppy was grown in an AV software company lab, and it is just another attempt to create AV selling FUD on ALL OS platforms, especially the Linux platform. It will have no effect on a Linux OS, and only a rank Linux Newbie would think it possible.
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>A real viri has to accompany it in order to 'extract' the payload, so what's the point? The viri may as well pack its own payload.
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>Stupid, just like that putative Linux-WinXX crossplatform viri. It rates as an 'honor' virus -- "Please pass this email on to all of
>the addresses in your address book and then delete all the files on your hard drive."

Sounds like the Montenegro virus - just sits on your disk doing nothing ever, too lazy...