and now, a word about joomla

By basd on Feb 24, 2009 | In -arghhh!!

If you are running joomla CMS and VirtueMart anywhere, it's probably a good idea to be running the CURRENT version.

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There are allegedly some 13 or more variants of worms and bots cruising around trying to access legacy exploits and crash your install. One use is apparently to grab the site for a spam relay system. I don't know.

I do know, however, that when the bot turns all of the files into full R/W privileges, you've got a problem that is tedious to fix. And, that the Admin panel will now be inaccessible.

Why would I know this, you ask?

Well, it seems that my client was running a customized legacy version, making it very hard to update. So guess what, no updates. So guess what-2.0, massive problems.

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