On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Mitja Perko wrote... > This is wrong belief to my knowledge. You do not go executing > images. You read them and try to display them. If format is not > right then component for reading the image will report it and you > will skip the image. Images must have a valid header and data > format.
Then how would you explain viruses spreading via the .jpg and .gif formats? They have 'code' in the headers that the viewer (in most cases IE) reads and 'executes'... which causes infection. > Also one can send you html with attached images (which are in fact > scripts) right now and nothing is wrong. Here we are only talking about > downloading images if they are not attached. Same issue occurs, although if you have a virus scanner, they should be caught ;) > Hmm.. I thought the images get cached. At least Netscape mail did > this. This is quite nice since you do not need to go online to view the > html with images. Although I forgot if caching was until the browser > was closed or longer. But because it's in Netscape, netscape being a browser and all, it gets cached with the browsers settings... while TB! isn't a web browser, so might not cache them. -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://bt.ritlabs.com
