PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. The PEAR website itself has been disabled until a known clean site can be rebuilt. Anyone downloading and installing an updated edition from PEAR in the last half-year could have been compromised. No date has been given as to when the pear.php.net website will return to normal service. Users who wish to download an up-to-date and unaffected version of PEAR are being directed to Github.”]