[Esa-l]Re: Webbugs using sound not gifs?

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Wed Jul 11 19:24:08 PDT 2001


On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Simon Matthews wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, John D. Hardin wrote:
> 
> > Yes, background sounds can be used as webbugs.
> 
> But does the scanner do anything to filter them out?

As of 1.126 if you have webbug defanging enabled the BGSOUND tag is
defanged as well. If there are other ways to specify a sound for the
page, it may get through.

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