[Year 12 SofDev] PHP webServer Viruses (Victoria Farrell)

Fri Nov 23 02:03:45 UTC 2018

There are some hints in the FAQ. You will need to do some configuring in
the security console.

https://www.apachefriends.org/faq_windows.html
XAMPP is not meant for production use but only for development
environments. XAMPP is configured to be open as possible to allow the
developer anything he/she wants. For development environments, this is
great but in a production environment, it could be fatal.

Also are you sure it's not a false positive?

Help! There is a virus in XAMPP!

Some antivirus programs mistake XAMPP for a virus, typically flagging the
file xampp-manager.exe This is a false positive meaning that the antivirus
erroneously identified it as a virus, when it is not. Before we release
each new version of XAMPP we run it through virus scanning software. At the
moment we are using Kapersky Online Virus Scanner
<http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner>. You can also use the online tool Virus
Total <https://www.virustotal.com/> for scanning XAMPP or send us an email
to security (at) apachefriends (dot) org if you find any issue.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 9:06 AM Stephen Trouse <
Stephen.Trouse at flinders.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Don't connect to the Internet :)
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> Hi everyone,
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> I am doing an online course in PHP and my school gave me a separate laptop
> to run XAMP on and to do the exercises.
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> I have had two viruses and both times had to have my laptop taken away and
> killed with fire and returned to me with all my stuff removed. I've had to
> reinstall XAMP and Notepad++ etc and start again.
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> Can anyone tell me the best way to keep your machine secure while running
> XAMP? If I am getting students to use their own computers, I don't want
> this happening over and over.
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> Desperate for a light at the end of the PHP recurring tunnel, Vic
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