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Bugs, malware, and viruses, oh my!

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Bugs, malware, and viruses, oh my!

All righty, I must be missing something here. I keep on reading a bunch of threads here at vB.org about people having their forum site "infected" with something or another, and I'm wondering just how it's possible. I mean, let's subtract the Windows servers from the equation, because they don't count.

Let's focus on people running a LAMP stack, here.

How does a WEBSITE get "infected?" I mean, there aren't any Linux viruses out there in the wild that I've ever come across. I've been running Linux on my home computer for many years now, and the only stupid things that happen to it are the stupid things I do to it. XP

Could someone explain to me in simple terms how a virus can get embedded into a website? I just don't get it.

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