Re: VMS 7.3 vs 8.x - java in HTML files, Hmm.

patrick jankowiak wrote:
they got on the system live, I could use any web browser and view
source, and one short line of javascript had been inserted in each
HTML file near the beginning. I verified this by FTP-ing the files
back to myself and looking at them, sure enough it was there.

I would extract that one line of evil javascript, and search your whole
system for that line. It might reveal where it is stored, possibly some
configuration file.



I do not recall what the little string of code was exactly,

It would have helped a lot to remember that string of code. (or come
here before you upgraded from 8.2 to 7.3).

participating for a long time due the Wiz's untimely demise, the
Charlie Matco incident,

There is still a community of VMS enthousiasts.

Anyway, I nuked the version 8 system and all the data, went back to
7.3 and the javascript problem went away.

Did you re-download the html files ?

You didn't mention which TCPIP stack you have and whether you installed
some separate/different FTP software.

If Apache had added the javascript, this would not have been visible if
you FTPed the files back to another system, it would have been visible
only from a browser's "view source".

Web servers can be configured to insert code in each HTML page they
feed. But it is very hard for an FTP application to ADD contents inside
a file. (perhaps at the very top or very bottom, but not within the contents)
.

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