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Malware on Linux

one stage utterances of the form “Linux doesn’t get viruses” were commonplace. They still are, by fans of the operating system and even by distro makers (). Unfortunately such talk was never quite true and it’s more fallacious now than it ever was. Worms, rootkits and all

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