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Story: F-Secure gives Linux an antivirus injection

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Where did you get your information on Linux virii? Do you know the difference between a virus and a worm? There are most assuredly *not* 500 Linux virii in the wild or anywhere else.

There have been worms that have targeted Linux as a single component of an overall propagation scheme, and only a few of those.

Virii are a different issue altogether, and while some have claimed to have created a genuine Linux virus in a lab, this kind of a creation would have little success infecting real-world machines due to a number of factors relating to binary structure and other things I won't go into here.

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