Are Linux boxes vulnerable to be used by botnets?

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Are Linux boxes vulnerable to be used by botnets?

This article in USA Today is frightening.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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