What is this web site trying to do?

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 4 23:28:55 UTC 2007


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:54:37 -0400
> linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>This favicon.ico error happens a lot both internally and 
>>externally what would be causing this? I have nothing on my 
>>pages that would be pointing a browser to a favicon.ico 
>>file or image.
> 
> 
> Many web browsers (including Firefox) automatically look for and download a

I use Mozilla, and I see nothing like what you describe.

> favicon.ico file if one exists in the root directory of your website.  That's
> the little doodad graphic that appears in your location bar beside the site
> name.  For example, if you go to my website:  http://www.melvilletheatre.com
> you will see a little film reel in your location bar.

Hmm. That's certainly something I would disable if I could, and if I
couldn't I'd change browsers. Sounds like a great opportunity for a
security breach.

Mike
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