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hhg writes: "Central Command discovers First Virus to Use PHP Scripting Language. 'This virus is not dangerous in any kind, but it can be modified to have a very destructive payload and marks a new step towards a new virus generation,' said Steven Sundermeier, Product Manager at Central Command, Inc." In its current form, the virus apparently only infects Windows machines -- by infecting all .php, .hm, .html or .htt files in the C:\Windows directory, but I guess we will see more dangerous variants out there very soon." The Register also has a nice article about it here. Anyone who has been following PHP probably already knows about this, but I thought it would be interesting to folks who don't follow PHP that closely. Calling it a virus though, is somewhat suspect. Plus we get to show off the new PHP topic icon :)

hhg writes: "Central Command discovers First Virus to Use PHP Scripting Language. 'This virus is not dangerous in any kind, but it can be modified to have a very destructive payload and marks a new step towards a new virus generation,' said Steven Sundermeier, Product Manager at Central Command, Inc." In its current form, the virus apparently only infects Windows machines -- by infecting all .php, .hm, .html or .htt files in the C:\Windows directory, but I guess we will see more dangerous variants out there very soon." The Register also has a nice article about it here. Anyone who has been following PHP probably already knows about this, but I thought it would be interesting to folks who don't follow PHP that closely. Calling it a virus though, is somewhat suspect. Plus we get to show off the new PHP topic icon :)

First reported by the German magazine C'T, a new virus has been discovered. This one damages your computer by flashing the BIOS with garbage. I'm surprised how long it took for someone to come up with this. It only works on certain boards since there is no standard way of flashing roms. Also, it requires the installation of a promiscuous operating system that does not protect memory and I/O locations by default. AVP has released more details here. At least it's not this bad.