Others, directly targeting Linux, are not the point of the article referenced.
"Trojan" is a type or class of malware, not the name of this one specifically (it was capitalized in my original post by auto correct). There are many "trojan" malware programs out there specific to Linux and your machines are vulnerable to them.
If you don't run Windows then your machines are not vulnerable to this particular version, so this thread shouldn't have concerned you at all, and nothing you posted is going to be useful at all to anyone who is. Trojan infection is a result of poor security awareness on the part of the user, and changing operating systems will not fix that. I'm not here to bash Linux, you showed up to bash Windows. No operating system is perfect, and they're all vulnerable to this kind of attack. I understand you like Linux, but coming here to tell everyone about it while omitting that one fact that would have been relevant to the topic at hand doesn't prove how much smarter you are than Windows users.
Hey Tac, take some advice from someone whose gotten bit by the Utilizer troll: don’t feed it. He/she absolutely thrives on these sorts of bloody threads and is known around FR as a Linux troll.
Bottom line, he/she posts Microsoft bad press and then tries to win adherents to Linux by espousing its virtues. Microsoft is the biggest dog in town and is going to take flak from all sides on all things. I personally use Linux in both my home lab and in my corporate life, but I can tell you personally, esp. having to work around PCI, SSAE16, and a raft of audits, Linux is just as susceptible to vulnerabilities as Microsoft. Those vulnerabilities, while often similar, seldom mirror those affecting Microsoft.
Different sides of the same coin. Browse smart, people.
I did not start this thread to "prove" anything. Merely to start a conversation about this particular version of malware that is specifically targeted towards Win10 and Edge. If that does not include you, then how fortunate.
Glad to see you understand about trojans, and thank you for sharing.
Cheers.