Okay, I understand why, but it still strikes me as funny: “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. [Linus] has coded a patch for the kernel to allow the virus to work on even the latest Linux kernel.” And, later: “Leave it to open source hackers to debug and fix aging viral code so that it works correctly.” Full story [[http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/04/18/1941251|here]].