Thanks to Jim
Reavis for this link.
“A new Melissa-like virus is hitting networks extensively today,
and once again you can be thankful if you are running Linux. We are
reviewing the impact on Linux systems.”
“Samba – The virus is destructive in that in searches both the
local and network drives for certain file types and overwrites them
as zero byte files. It does this by performing create and close
operations with the file handle. Linux file systems running Samba
are vulnerable if infected Windows users have write access to files
with the following extensions:”