bugtraq - Re: a dangerous fast spreading (yet simple) trojan horse.

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:43:27 +0100
From: Andreas Reich <cyraxx@...ntion.de>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: a dangerous fast spreading (yet simple) trojan horse.

Gadi Evron wrote:
 > The jpeg is actually an HTML file, and when the web browser receives it,
 > it thinks that it is a server error message for the file not existing,
 > and loads the page.

Not necessarily. Often it is just a directory named xyz.jpg. The browser 
then
gets redirected to /url/xyz.jpg/ and loads the index.html there.

-Andreas