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I use curl because it is generally installed. I prefer not to install wget, especially on customer machines because it stops 90% of script kiddies. For some rea
by X-Istence 11y ago
I use curl because it is generally installed. I prefer not to install wget, especially on customer machines because it stops 90% of script kiddies. For some reason wget is the only tool they will attempt to use to download their sploit.
- lucb1e 11y agoPretty sure skiddies will not assume most victims have wget already, they'll just ship it with the exploit. If not installing wget is an annoyance to a hacker, they're already in too deep ;)
- X-Istence 11y agoYour stock standard drive by PHP exploit attempts usually attempt to "wget" another PHP file to public_html. They try wget, fail, and move on.