Quoting HOEFFNER at dcmir.med.umn.edu: > Since you guys are usually on top of these things and I haven't seen anyone > mention it: > > --3 June 2002 Simile is Cross-Platform Virus > The Simile virus infects Portable Executable (PE) and ELF files on > both Windows and Linux operating systems. The virus does not carry > a malicious payload, although infected files could display messages > on certain dates. > http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/03/1022982662974.html > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.simile.html Of course, what is important is that under Linux, the user would still have to be dumb enough to run the executable. Ergo, it cannot be considered a virus in the traditional sense but a trojan horse, and one that has already been demonstrated before. This is really a non-issue for Linux, which is probably why no one bothered to discuss it. :Peter