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someone wrote:web servers are the most secure machines (at least ones with apache and php that have a good admin) so who would write a virus for it, it cant do anything!!
there are few machines on the planet that are 100% safe, web servers are nothing special, they usually have firewalls, yeah so do most people theres web-sites all around the net about sites being hacked (a bank, name will go unspoken, was hacked not long ago banks have quite probably the best security of all web servers)
i can guarantee my home lan is more secure than 90% of web servers, however security awareness and deployment is coming on leaps and bounds
Delete the original virus file.
Examine each .php, .htm, or .html file to determine whether it contains virus code, and then edit these files to remove the code.
For example, if the virus file is named Virus.php, delete the file Virus.php and remove the following virus code from all php, .htm, or .htm files that have the code:
<php
include "virus.php"
/php>
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I'm sorry but if you can't figure out to delete anything named virus.php (or some other name that just happens to have some malicous code in it) then you shouldn't deserve to get rid of it
I know web servers aren't 100% secure. What I meant was that a web server will generally have a reasonably experienced admin who is always working to make it more secure whereas a home pc just has some schmuck who probably doesnt even know how to get the latest virus defs will be much less secure. So a virus that only attackes machines with PHP installed will probably not spread so fast...
// rm line
include ("virus.php");
// like stated earlyer.
And no i do not think, almost sure that a php script cant do any harm to youre computer ( besides the webdir. installing it youreself.) unless you indeed infact youre own computer.
As discribed on one of the pages which did a nice research on the mather, the code was only generated to show other people how powerful php was.
This ofcourse some time ago.