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One line of html code to crash Winblows

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toadlife:

--- Quote from: RaZoR1394 ---Yup, also much worse than Sasser and MSblast. Trust me, this will be used in a lot of websites just to f*ck people up.
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It's NOT worse than Blaster. Blaster was a self propogating worm that executed code on remote systems. This simply exploits a bug in the image rendering code, (or maybe the kernel's handling of graphics drivers?), and crashes the OS.



--- Quote from: RaZoR1394 --- Microsoft are already releasing 7 fixes om Tuesday I think. Maybe they won't have time to fix this one.
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I won't be losing any sleep over it.

toadlife:

--- Quote from: Orethrius ---Apparently not an issue in XP Pro SP2 running Firefox 1.0.4 - my dad has the laptop out-of-state until Saturday, so I'm stuck running the Beast. Meh, at least it has a tuner card to make up for its shortcomings. :cool:

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Interesting. It crashed my wife's XP Pro SP2 box with Firefox 1.0.4. What type of graphics card is in the machine you have?

My wifes is a GeForce3, and bluescreen references an infinite loop happening with the nvidia driver. I'm wondering if this is nothing bug a bug with Nvidia's drivers.

TB:
I'm running Firefox 1.0.4 on SP1 and I didnt even get a BSOD......it simply froze then rebooted. And I just happened to do this while burning a DVD

RaZoR1394:

--- Quote from: TB ---I'm running Firefox 1.0.4 on SP1 and I didnt even get a BSOD......it simply froze then rebooted. And I just happened to do this while burning a DVD
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--- Quote from: "*ME*" --- If you have disabled "automatically restart" it will show a bluescreen, else it will reboot.

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:rolleyes:

toadlife:
You have to set windows to not reboot when it bluescreens in order to see the bluescreen. The default behavior is to automatically reboot.

Right click on my computers, click on properties, and find the "start up and recovery" section

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