By Joey Gardiner, 6 April 2001 12:47
NEWS
The worm, discovered by industry group the SANS Institute, works by exploiting well-known flaws in the versions of the Linux OS. One of the flaws is a default setting on RedHat Linux 7.0.
It is the third well-publicised worm to target the Linux OS in the last few months. Previously Microsoft has been almost exclusively the virus-writer's favoured target.


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