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Five years ago: McAfee finds first known Linux virus

posted onFebruary 9, 2002
by hitbsecnews

Source: ZDNet UK

Called Bliss, the virus is important because it is the first to attack Linux, a freeware variant of Unix that is often used in Web site administration. UNIX flavours have always been considered difficult to infect because administration rights are required to create the virus; McAfee believes that multi-user games played in administrator mode may have caused the problem.

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