I know it is going to come sooner or later, but now there is a wide-spreading worm that attacks vulnerable phpBB installations, by exploiting its now infamous “highlight” bug prior to 2.0.10. It overwrites every .php file found on your system, which makes a quite big mess. I patched the only copy of phpBB installed on this server to 2.0.11 a few weeks ago, but somehow I still felt unsafe…
Scott Yang's Playground
Faith, Technology and Randomness in Life, According to Scott
Dec 22 2004
Hmm, I’m sort of glad I got attacked by the highlight bug before something like this worm does some real damage. I was attacked by the highlight hole, but only one page got overwritten. I can’t image having all the pages overwritten.