> > If I am correct, then McAfee should be clearer about the threat because
> > their web page doesn't help Linux at all by suggesting that it is the
> > first Unix that is suseptable to a virus and pointing out that all the
> > Windoze OSes are not vulnerable to it.
If McAfee said this then they are pretty doggone ignorant. Either that,
or they are hoping a lot of Linux users will be.
You cannot have a virus like a PC/Mac virus on a UNIX system. If a
program run as root does damage, copies itself, whatever, then it is
just a malicious program, not a virus.