Virus promoting Linux not serious

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Author: JT Smith

CNet follows up on stories about a new computer worm propagating itself by email that masquerades
as a Shockwave Flash movie. “Although experts agreed that the payload does not seriously damage a victim’s computer, they offered different
assessments of the risk of infection.

The virus, dubbed ‘Creative,’ comes in an email with the header ‘A great Shockwave
flash movie,’ … and has several aliases,
including Prolin, Shockwave, W32/Prolin@mm, TROJ_SHOCKWAVE and
TROJ_PROLIN. Prolin is short for ‘Pro-LINUX,’ so-called because the virus inserts harmless messages
on victim computers plugging the open-source operating system.”

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