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Santy is a computer worm created in Perl to exploit a vulnerability in phpBB software which used Google to spread across the internet. A computer worm is a self-replicating Computer program. It uses a network to send copies of itself to other nodes (computer terminals on the network and it may do so without NOTES FOR EDITORS "Perl" is not an acronym (read the "Name" section below phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP programming language Google Inc is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks
Within 24 hours of its release on 20 December 2004, a large number of websites (estimated by some at 30,000 to 40,000) were attacked by Santy. Events 69 - Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The worm caused writable files (of formats such as . php and . html) on the infected server to display the message "This site is defaced!!! This site is defaced!!! NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm generation X", where X is a number representing the generation of the worm.
There have been variants of the worm, some which use alternative search engines after Google blocked queries from the Santy worm, and an anti-Santy anti-worm which attempts to patch vulnerable installations [1]. Anti-worm has multiple meanings within the field of Computer security.
The phpBB Group had released a patch for the vulnerability a month before the attacks, in phpBB 2. 0. 11.
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Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic