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Torvalds creates patch for cross-platform virus
Tuesday April 18, 2006 (08:00 PM GMT)
By: Joe Barr

Linus Torvalds has had an opportunity to examine the testing and
analysis by Hans-Werner Hilse which we reported on yesterday, and has
blessed it as being correct. The reason that the virus is not
propagating itself in the latest kernel versions is due to a bug in how
GCC handles specific registers in a particular system call. He has coded
a patch for the kernel to allow the virus to work on even the latest
Linux kernel.

http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/04/18/1941251.shtml