[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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