"Mikkel C. Simonsen" wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > I went back to Netscape and did view source on the message. The first
> > part of that save I have attached. Obviously the attachment included a
> > binary. I suspect it to be a windoze virus or worm of some sort.
> > I searched through Bugzilla looking for something like this, but so far
> > have come up empty.
> > Questions:
> > 1-Is the attachment a worm or virus?
> Yes.
> > 2-Does Mozilla's failure to show the existence of an attachment
> > constitute a bug?
> No. Mozilla just does what it's told. If I understand the html-code
> below correctly, Mozilla should display the contents inside a 0*0 sized
> frame. When I receive e-mails like that, I can see a very small grey
> square. That html-code is probably there to hide the actual contents.
> > Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
> > name=ready_2_fly[1].pif
> According to the header the file is an audio file. So I guess Mozilla
> should try to play the file, but since it probably has no plugin for
> handling it, it probably shows the file attachment inside the very small
> frame...
> I think the file (actually a binary) is meant to "autorun" in Outbreak
> Express... Outlook does not care what the mime-type is - it just runs
> the pif file as a programme...
This is all easy enough to understand, as far as it goes. I had
forgotten about the bug 30888 fix. When I set 'View -> Message Body As
-> Original HTML', then Mozilla does display a spot that is missing when
set either to 'As Text' or 'As Simple HTML'. What still hasn't been
answered is why Mozilla, which normally notes the presence of an
attachment via an icon in the chrome headers, does not do so with this
message. Are you saying that because the HTML code makes reference to
the binary MIME component, Mozilla is correct to not notify of its
presence?
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