Re: AIM-based worm?

[skipper () ifrance com]

Hi,

> I dunno about the buddy list thing, but the inability to view the source in
> IE isn't surprising.  Note that the HTML below contains a META refresh that
> redirects you to the .com file.  Once this fires, the browser discards the
> HTML file containing the redirect and reqeusts the .com file.  When you
> cancel the download dialog and try to view source, there's nothing to see
> because the browser has no document loaded.  If you turn off Meta refresh
> before hitting the page, you'd see the HTML page below, and could view the
> source.

A good reflex would be to telnet the web server and to type this:
GET / HTTP/1.0
[then hit enter 2 times]

It will allow you to see what you want, without being annoyed by your browser 
!

Cya

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