Re: Security Breach Alert - CVS Home File Download Area Compromised

[email protected] (Larry Jones) Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:30:35 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general,gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Conrad T. Pino writes:
> > 
> > ii. The 8 sampled files "*.gz" files start downloading
> > with the expected file size but the download reaches
> > the expected file size and then continues to a file
> > size much larger than expected.

Many browsers will automagically unzip the file without removing the .gz
from the file name -- that may be all that's going on.

-Larry Jones

Philistines. -- Calvin