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Should I be disabling libwww-perl

Posted on January 17, 2015

I was just doing some seo checking and it checks various things and one thing was security and it came back and said: botnets use libwww-perl and you should block it.

How much of a threat is this and should I do it?



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If you are not using Perl scripts on your site then you should not require this module.

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