Net Worm Uses Google to Spread

troop23 writes "A web worm that identifies potential victims by searching Google is spreading among online bulletin boards using a vulnerable version of the program phpBB, security professionals said on Tuesday. Almost 40,000 sites may have already been infected. In an odd twist if you use Microsoft's Search engine to scan for the phrase 'NeverEverNoSanity'-- part of the defacement text that the Santy worm uses to replace files on infected Web sites--returns nearly 39,000 hits." Reader pmf sent in a few more information links: F-Secure weblog and Bugtraq posting. Update: 12/22 03:34 GMT by T : ZephyrXero links to this news.com article that says Google is now squashing requests generated by the worm.

Comments

Re:Ehhh.. Tape drive perhaps??

[Zerbey]

Perhaps, but they're also slow and fail half the time anyway (in my experience). RAID 5 is the best backup solution IMHO!

Farming it off to another hard drive (or better still, another hard drive array) is an excellent idea, but I would make it writeable only by root.

Tape backups are a secondary backup system in my opinion.