Almost certainly yes. If it's not then this person is very unlucky. It's listed on urban dict and used in http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html where it says Linux is a virus (ironically a translation of this was my first information about Linux ever when I was a gullible teen.., I clearly remember the 'LILO' part, since when I was starting to get into it Linux was already using GRUB).