Suspected Computer-Virus Author Arrested
T0rn, with a zero, was not as menacing as the Code Red, Sircam and Nimda worms and viruses, which caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to corporate computer networks last year. Linux-based software systems account for a small segment of the computing market.
So does this mean that more people should use Linux since there are fewer viruses that exploit or are we lucky so few people do because the effects might have been worse?
According to this page, t0rn is a rootkit installed by the Lion or Ramen virues and exploits 8.2, 8.2-P1, 8.2.2-Px, and all 8.2.3 beta versions of BIND