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Santy
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Santy is reported by F-Secure.
| Created: | 2004-12-21 |
| Short Info: | Santy is a worm was found at December 21st, 2004. It uses a vulnerability in popular phpBB discussion forum software to spread and it uses Google search engine to find vulnerable servers. It does not infect end user computers. Google has started fil |
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| If you have been infected | We would recommend that you perform an online scan or buy an antivirusprogram. Here is more information about antivirusprograms: Antivirus programs |
| More info: | Santy @ F-Secure |
| Aliases: | Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a, |
| Viruses/Clones: | Perl.Santy PHP/Santy.worm Santy Perl/Santy-A PERL/Santy.worm Perl/Santy-A |
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