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loreyo
17 Dec 2008, 02:40 AM
Hello. I have some server space and a domain name. I use an ftp client to upload items to it (filezilla).

Recently two strange php scrips have appeared in my home directory. I did not put these there and when attempting to access them (with a browser) plain text reading "access denied" is output.

the files in question are named:
.wysiwygPro_preview_eacf331f0ffc35d4b482f1d15a887d3b.php
.wysiwygPro_edit_eacf331f0ffc35d4b482f1d15a887d3b.php

I thought it might have something to do with awstats, since it is the only thing I recently added to my hosting package, however, if memory serves me correctly, awstats works all through perl, but, I don't know awstats well enough to delete these files in confidence.

Does anybody know if they have anything to do with awstats? Is this a known security threat?

Thank you.

morestar
18 Dec 2008, 02:57 PM
You don't have to worry about those files, they have to do with, well, i forgot, i had them on my server once, and it had to do with software my host installed for me, namely WHM or something...you can even delete them too.

nothing will happen unless you actually are using them...