Further analysis has shown that although older versions of phpBB are vulnerable, phpBB 2.0.11 is not.
Therefore we strongly urge everyone to update to phpBB 2.0.11 to prevent infection by this Worm.
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Update on Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a and phpBB vulnerabitlity