wouldn’t you have to download something that contained it first? (I don’t know much abotu how viruses work- or infect- )
Sometimes all you have to do is just go to a website and you’re infected........Or a e-mail from a friend or relative has it because they did..............
That’s ok neither do most public health directors.
The virus is not a simple Trojan. It’s worse than that and finds its own way through the Net. And it’s a rootkit.
If you have a newer computer, you should have UEFI instead of a BIOS. Go into “setup” early in the boot process to find out. Different machines have different ways of going into setup (see your computer documentation).
Look at the UEFI and/or secure boot documentation for your Linux distribution. Can’t help you more than that, because different machines and different distributions require reading different instructions.
Your Linux distribution should be automatic enough with respect to UEFI to do its part without modification of your operating system. That varies, though, with use of a non-free module (e.g., WiFI chips in *some* computers), in which case, more reading and work needs to be done.
It shouldn’t require anything more than enabling UEFI secure boot in your machine’s setup, *if* your machine is not too old and doesn’t have the old BIOS instead.
All of that said, our personal computers aren’t the main goal, unless there’s more to the problem than what we see in the article above this thread. Commercial (trade secrets) and government information are what the Russians are after.