Torvalds creates patch for cross-platform virus

[Technocrat <dj.technocrat.listmail () gmail com>]

Linus Torvalds has had an opportunity to examine the testing and
analysis by Hans-Werner Hilse which we reported on yesterday
<//os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/1752213&tid=2>, 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/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/1941251

-Technocrat

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