malware in Linux?

in a sudden spurt of SNR on /., I found *one* topic with *three* informative comments on this topic...

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461872&cid=30284956
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461872&cid=30280222
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1461872&cid=30278934

In addition, this gem landed up somewhere (couldn't find the comment now but it's in there somewhere: "bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow"