Large Scale Net Attack Underway?

Microsoft Servers & User Machines Targets

[rogerd]

AP is reporting an unusual virus attack. Microsoft IIS servers become infected, and append code to the bottom of web pages. The code is Javascript which attempts to access a file on a remote site. The code is presumably malicious, but details are still sketchy.
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[py9jmas]

JavaScript is a programming language. I believe it to be Turing Complete (but then again, so is the Sendmail configuration file and Conway's Game of Life).

As for having control over the runtime environment, with C and C++ you are still dependant on the host environment (libc and libstdc++ on Unix, MS C Runtime Environment on Windows) to function properly. Different C libraries do have different features/bugs that can impact on your binary. (This is not necessarily true for statically compiled programmes. However that is equivalent of distributing the JavaScript interpreter with your JavaScript).