What's the common cause for trojan downloaders on linux servers?

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Published on 2010-03-22T15:26:06Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 15:31 UTC
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Hi! On several of the webservers i'm responsible for there's a javascript virus, a trojan downloader according to the antivirus i'm using. It's a minified javascript that's on the bottom of every page requested from the server. I don't know what the cause is. How can I prevent this from happening again?

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