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

Tue Nov 27 22:16:18 UTC 2018

Yes, I can google!

The fake "login" windows are appearing not only on the browsers but on
Cortana when I try to open anything from the windows menu. I can repeatedly
click on 'Cancel' and eventually it goes away. But this is a repeated
instance. I am learning to live with it currently because I can't afford to
have everthing deleted again by our "Zero Malware Tolerance" tech staff.

Given this has happened repeatedly and the only software installed on the
laptop is Google Chrome, Notepadd++ and XAMP, I'm starting to think it
can't be a coincidence.
If anyone has had similar issues with XAMP please let me know how you
solved them.

Thanks.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 1:02 PM Phillip Donald <milsendonaldp at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Desperate for a light at the end of the PHP recurring tunnel, Vic
>>
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