A walking "bug" on Cygwin home page

Peter A. Castro doctor@fruitbat.org
Sun Aug 18 22:44:00 GMT 2013


On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Peter A. Castro wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 01:13:14PM +0200, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>> Have you noticed the walking "bug" appeared today on the Cygwin Home
>> Page (http://www.cygwin.com).
>> 
>> I initially thought that it was a real insect inside my PC monitor, but
>> then I realized it was a "graphical" bug walking on the same path, an
>> horizontal "8".
>> 
>> I wonder if it doesn't hide some new malaware...
> 
> It's a well known fact that all software (and web sites) have bugs.

In this case, I think it's not the figurative meaning, but a little more 
"literal", well, at least in the visual sense.  :-)

Examine the source html for that url and you will find the following 
embedded in it:

<h1>This is the home of the Cygwin project   <img 
src="insectod4.gif"></h1>

Someone embedded "insectod4.gif" which appears to be an animated gif of a 
bug going in a figure 8.  Quite funny, actually.

> cgf

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