A new strain of viruses written in the widespread scripting language PHP could be on the way according to Anti-virus company Central Command. A "proof of concept" virus, dubbed PHP.NewWorld, written in Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) scripting language, was found by Central Command last week. PHP is a popular free server scripting language and, although NewWorld is not especially harmful, Central Command believes it could spawn a hoard of copycat viruses written in PHP.
Although PHP.NewWorld can infect machines from a server it is not capable of spreading by itself and does not damage files on infected machines.
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