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caustic:
I hexedited two windows shortcuts so that they point to each other, on viewing the folder explorer crashes repeatedly, this is a pretty big flaw, right? No execution required, explorer tries to find the icon for the shortcut and goes into an infinite loop, this ought to be important. Opinions please.  :eek:   :D    :D    :D

dbl221:
Well it should report an error and exit gracefully.  However I am not sure this is the biggest problem with windows....what version of winblows was it??

There are known memory leaks and other problems of a more fundimental nature in many winblows versions.

Calum:
i have a feeling that problem will be there for all the 9x versions, and probably all the NT ones too, i can't talk for CE or the 8bit ones though.

This doesn't sound too threatening, but it's not a large chunk of stuff, and it sounds like, it could be shoehorned into another fairly small bunch of code, and circulated easily, probably without any executables et c et c, as you say, easily bringing windows to its knees, which is what we like to see after all!

MxCl:
But it says something about the quality of programmer MS employs. This sort of eventuality should surely have some code that prevents the infinite loop from ever occuring, or am I wrong?

Maybe most of MS bugs are due to coders not taking the time to prepare the code for unforeseen eventualities.

Caustic, are shortcuts easy to hexedit? Could you give us a * brief * rundown on how you did it?

dbl221:
Well I know coders from M$ and for the record they are some of the best coders around.  Microsoft hires and seeks out the best coders from the best schools. They have tonnes of talent in their coders.  The problem with M$ and many software companies is that the coders do not decide what freatures are included into products and they do not set the deadlines for the realease dates.  The entire industry ships unfinnished products all the time...they all do it, thats just how the industry works.  Just imagine for a sec.  Bill Gates is the head software architect at M$ and he is  not a developer.  He cant and does not write code...never has and never will.  And that is who is incharge of the developers.  Imagine for a sec that the surgical teams at your local Hospital were run and dictated to by an accountant, thats what is happening at M$.

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