Is this some form of hack?

pro\xe74\xeb\xffw.php

[mipapage]

Found this in the logs for a new site, and though it throws the 404 page, I'm still a bit worried as to what it may be...

http://www.mysite.com/pro\xe74\xeb\xffw.php

Any ideas?

[celenoid]

This is not a hack. No suspicious query strings, just a resource request. It's about as harmful as requesting a misspelled graphic.

The backslashes (\) as opposed to forward slashes (/) indicate that xffw.php might have existted on someone's local machine, as opposed to the net.

There are lots and lots of reasons that you will often receive odd requests on your domain for files on a different server, or even hard drives - for example, if someone recieves a HTML email with a <base href=http://www.mysite.com/> tag -- all relative links will unexpetantly point to mysite.com.