Using Others'CGI Scripts
Many helpful archives of CGI scripts are available free on the Web, and each is stuffed with dozens of useful, valuable programs. However, before you start haphazardly downloading all these gems and blindly installing them on your server, you should pause and consider two things:
Does the script come with source code?
Do you know the language the program is written in well enough to really understand what it does?
If the answer to either question is no, you could be opening yourself up to a huge con game, doing the hacker's work for him by installing a potentially dangerous CGI program on your own server. It's like bringing a bomb into your house because you thought it was a blender.
These Trojan horse scripts—so named ...
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