Re: Notice for those running MySQL on Windows
| From: | Bastien Koert | Date: | Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:32:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Notice for those running MySQL on Windows | ||
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The slashdot's crowd had tons of intersting comments about it, too. ;-)
Bastien
From: Chris <listschris@leftbrained.org> To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Notice for those running MySQL on Windows Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:14:11 -0800 Thanks for the info. Martin Norland wrote:http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/27/1546222 Summary: if your mysql is actually listening on the network (not just localhost) you might get wormed - brief perusal says it has to do with weak root passwords. It's basically a spyware worm or some such - but certainly not something anyone would *want* on their box. Cheers,-- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php