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Significance of 'pagerror.gif'?

I'm getting strange hits to a non-existant file on my site called 'pagerror.gif'. From some basic Googling it appears to be a file that Internet Explorer looks for in certain situations.

Can anyone verify that, and perhaps provide some additional information about when IE would look for that file?

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If I'm not mistaken, pagerror.gif is the image IE shows on error pages. Should be located in res://shdoclc.dll/pagerror.gif. (You can enter that in IE to see the icon)

Chad  2009-09-18 20:54:47
That's correct, but under what circumstances would IE request that icon from the webserver as opposed to retrieving it from the local computer?
Ian  2009-09-18 21:14:22
Probably isn't, could be someone looking for a vuln?Similar to http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/310684?
Chad  2009-09-18 21:56:21
It happened to my co-worker while he was testing stuff on the site, but we didn't notice it in the logs until a week later so the exact conditions were lost. So it appears to be something that IE is doing on its own.
Ian  2009-09-18 22:02:07

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