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Re:Humbug, Indeed

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 19, 2006 07:24 PM
Not much considering it was old code using unconventional methods to serve as malware... Honestly if anything it'd be easier to create malware for a Linux system if you can get the user to run it (Which I'd guess would be considerably harder.) I mean really I'm sure I couild come up with 5 unpleasant working scripts off the top of my head that would effect a large portion of Linux systems (those that run as root for whatever reason...)

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