[imp] No Inline Images.
Anil Madhavapeddy
anil@recoil.org
Wed, 8 Nov 2000 18:39:48 -0000
Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
>
> > The only other thing I can think of, that affects Win32 progs, would
> > be to recieve a image.jpg.exe. You would usually see image.jpg in
> > your attachment window, but it would be executed. Of course, that
> > wouldn't work here..
>
> ? Can you elaborate on this a bit? Will IE really execute programs
> disguised as jpgs and linked to through an <img> tag??
>
Nope, it doesn't - I think what Rick was referring to is the common
trick of naming a file something like 'photo.jpg.exe', which would
show up as a harmless photo.jpg when Windows hides the file extension
(on by default in most installations)
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