Interesting Trip. I thought you didn't need Anti-virus on Linux unless you are running a server

This is a worm aimed primarily at Linux web servers but only those running very specific modules.

EDIT: Try THIS link.

And with a very specific configuration that is an inherently unsafe way to run a web server. A lot of things have to be just right before this thing will run, and even then it isn't going to harm the system itself.

It doesn't target Linux as much as it targets the Apache web server CGI scripts written using PHP. They just happen to be running on a lot of Apache web servers running on Linux.

This is not a worm that attacks the OS. If it really opened a backdoor into the OS it would install a rootkit and that would make it very difficult to detect and remove, so the article stating that it opens a backdoor into the computer is a little bit deceiving. It's installing itself in the web server directories and then reading web server files. It's not actually getting into the host computer as such unless someone has set Apache file permissions up in a really bizarre manner. The www-data group doesn't even have read permissions, let alone write permissions, outside of the web server files in an Apache server that is set up correctly.