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Anti-Santy Worm Patches phpBB Flaw

Posted by michael on from the whether-you-like-it-or-not dept.

sebFlyte writes "Interesting Santy worm story -- there's now an anti-Santy worm proliferating, which spreads the same way as a normal worm, but rather than killing machines or taking control of them, it gives them security updates..." We mentioned the Santy worm about ten days ago.

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  1. Not very benificial by lightdarkness · · Score: 5, Informative

    Is reporting that they don't know if the worm actually patches it sucessfully. For all we know, it could be infecting the System. When searching, only 3 results came up.