First virus in Linux

The virus, which is called Bliss, is significant because many in the Unix industry have previously believed that viruses were not a concern to Unix operating system users.Bliss is a destructive virus which overwrites Linux executables with its own codeBliss infects Linux executable files. Each time Bliss is executed, it overwrites two or more additional files. Because the virus makes its presence known by overwriting and destroying files each time it executes, users are immediately alerted to its presence. Bliss overwrites the first 17,892 bytes of each affected file with its own code. According to McAfee anti-virus researchers, all files infected by Bliss are irrecoverable. Although the virus does not operate under traditional operating systems such as DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, NetWare and the Macintosh, files created in these aforementioned operating system formats and stored on Linux file servers are vulnerable to corruption by Bliss.