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Uh huh... so it can infect Linux after you click the applet to "trust" it.

This like saying giving someone a shell script to rm -fr / and having them run it is infecting the system.

Well, it was the exact same situation with OS X (you had to explicitly trust the self-signed applet when asked), and that was apparently still news-worthy, so this is no different.

The title should probably be something like "Koobface Would Infect Linux Systems Too, If It Could Be Bothered".

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