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Old 09-28-11, 08:06
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MySQL.com may be serving malware!

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I have not investigated this report, but I thought that it was important enough to post "as is" until I can verify it.

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Old 09-28-11, 08:50
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the exposure lasted only a matter of hours on monday september 26th, and then was fixed

but due to the nature of the hack, if you visited mysql.com with a windows computer that day, there's a good chance you might have been infected

the sad news is, only about half of the many popular virus detection products, so far, are able to detect it

see this report on virustotal.com
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