Re: Another IE5 complaint

[Matt Sergeant]

On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Joe Pearson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered that
> whenever a IE5 user visits a page in their "Favorites", IE5 also trys
> to GET favicon.ico from the same site.  Therefor I have hundreds of
> "File does not exist:"  errors in my log file.

Apparently you can BSOD a winbox with a buffer overflow in a .ico file,
although I don't know where the exploit is listed on the net (distant
memory). Maybe that would stop this dumb practice. :)

(I _am_ just kidding).

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