Nihil I think that the virus that you are talking about is called "W32.Winux" or also known as "W32/Lindose.2132". Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.


W32.Winux is not a platform-independent virus. W32.Winux's initial injection point must be a Windows machine -- it cannot start by infecting a Linux box. Once it infects a Windows computer though, it starts looking for certain files under the Windows file system and the Linux file systems. When it finds what it's looking for, it opens files and inserts code.

It initially infects a Windows system and seeks out certain Windows files (PE file types, which include .exe files). W32.Winux's uniqueness stems from the fact that it doesn't stop there. After infecting a Windows system, W32.Winux then starts looking through the system for any known Linux files -- for instance, through shared file systems or remote drives. It looks through those for Linux ELF files, which also include Linux system binaries.
Here's a link to learn a little more about it ...
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/defau...&virus_k=99060

Is this the virus which you were talking about ? Will it ever be possible for virus writers to create a collection of viruses which would be able to cripple the Net ? Or would that just be impossible ?

Seeing as technology increases every year and people wanting to have networked homes I think that this would just give a virus writer another challenge to create a virus which would create quite some chaos. Imagine waking up at 3:00 a.m. to hear your stereo blarring or you tv turned on ... I am probably going a little overboard but who can say that this will not be possible in a couple of years from now ...