First Hypertext Virus Found.

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Central Command says it has uncovered the first script virus that can execute in a hypertext server environment. The good news is that the virus, PHP.NewWorld, has no payload and is not self-propagating.

Steve Sundermeier, Central Command's product manager, told Newsbytes the appearance of the virus is worrisome, since it is a "proof of concept" virus for the hypertext preprocessor (PHP) scripting language.

"If you look back at the development of scripting viruses, right through to Loveletter, you'll see that they all started with proof of concept versions," he said, adding that, once a proof of concept edition of a virus has been created, it is a few short steps for other hackers to add payloads and other destructive attributes to the program.

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[Rendus]

Er. So it's a PHP script that does.. What? How is it a virus?



<< When it executes, PHP.NewWorld looks for php, hm, html or htt suffix files in the C:\Windows directory. All files found with these extensions will become infected. >>



Er. PHP is a SERVER SIDE scripting language. All this is, is a script written IN PHP, that deletes [edit-modifies] files. This doesn't make any sense.