[zeugma]

Since the “virus” is written to be platform independent, it COULD infect a Linux or Mac computer, but since you need SUDO or the admin password to perform installations on those respective platforms, the incidence is very low if non-existent.

Yup. I allow sudo on my desktop, but make sure to require authentication.  You can allow sudo to be passwordless, but I don't think it's a good idea.

 

[rarestia]

Ubuntu Linux requires SUDO to do a lot of things, but you could conceivably not set a password for your user account, thus negating the SUDO requirement.