If one were to guess the original of the virus, a fair bet would be Microsoft. They are seeing their flagship go down to Linux and they have enough engineers and programmers available to create such a virus, and they would probably do so if their higher ups told them that Linux would cost them their jobs and bring the value of their shares down to $0 if people weren't scared away from Linux ASAP.
If one were to guess the original of the virus, a fair bet would be Microsoft. They are seeing their flagship go down to Linux and they have enough engineers and programmers available to create such a virus, and they would probably do so if their higher ups told them that Linux would cost them their jobs and bring the value of their shares down to $0 if people weren't scared away from Linux ASAP.