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

[Andreas Reich <cyraxx () scention de>]

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