MySQL was hit with a worm in its Windows version last week. The worm, which was fairly quickly squashed, took advantage of poor password choices and used "brute force" to take over systems
news.com.com/2100-7349_3-5553570.html
Read about it in a bit more depth isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-01-27

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Wow, I'm glad I never host on a Windows machine + MySQL/PHP. I notice PHP has minor issues running on IIS, and MySQL as well.

Viva la linux hosting! Hehe.

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Chris Charlton <i>- DMXzone Manager</i>
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