When loading a page containing references to non-existing URL’s using tags, I see a strange text reply from the server.
The server does return status code 404 as expected, but it also includes a text response with chinese-like characters.
Is the server infected, or is the error message just in a different language than english … ?
If infected, how can I find out where?
Here is an example of the text replies. It seems that the reply is identical for each 404 error, although a part of it changes when a different filetype is not found.
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You have a character encoding issue. It is a ASCII file that is being interpretted as a 2byte character encoding and thus you are getting the strange characters.
To translate it I copied the text to notepad. Saved it as Unicode-Big Endian and then used a hex editor to strip the first two characters (that tell it that it is unicode). Opening it again gave me:
You would need to look into things to see if it is declaring the wrong content type in an HTML header (the content type in the meta tag looks correct) or something else is causing it problems.