F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Pirus

PHP/Pirus is the first virus written with PHP. PHP is a server side scripting language for web servers.

VARIANT:

Pirus.A

When PHP/Pirus.A is executed, it will search for files with ".php" and ".htm" from the current directory. If such files are found, it will append a small code that will execute the virus from a separate file. The name of the file is "pirus.php".

[Analysis: Katrin Tocheva and Sami Rautiainen, F-Secure; January 2001]