Santy peters out, but variants likely
02:09 - Thursday 23 December 2004 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: santy, peters, out Category : Miscellaneous
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: santy, peters, out Category : Miscellaneous
The Santy worm stopped spreading after Google Inc disabled web searches that looked like they had been generated by the malicious program, which was responsible for defacing tens of thousands of PHP message boards. But Santy's source code has been published, making it more likely that a variant could appear over the coming days and weeks.
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