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Mambers.com attacked by Santy worm Print E-mail
Written by Arthur Konze   
Sunday, 26 December 2004

Since yesterday afternoon Mambers.com and many other vBulletin websites are under attack by the Santy worm. The worm hooks into IRC channels and uses bots to launch DDOS attacks against any '.php' files he can find on Google. The worm tries to break into systems using the recently discovered security holes in php.

As we updated our server to the latest php version already, we are pretty safe. But sadly the thousands of attacking bots produce a tremendous load and traffic. We therefore decided to move Mambers.com to a new domain temporary and redirect you at Mambers.com. For now you can find Mambers.com over at:

 
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