[MACEP] Just about pointless Windows crash

Bruce Scherer bscherer at pps.k12.or.us
Wed Jun 1 11:13:20 PDT 2005


Below is a webpage that has a link that can crash Windows (clicking on
the link below does not load the crash). The page itself briefly
explains what its hyperlink does: causes the computer to load a massive
image that overloads the computer. I do not encourage clicking on it,
although it doesn't seem to harm my XP machine after a reboot:

http://www.jgiannotti.com/exploitcrash.php 

When opened in Safari in OS X 10.4 it started up iChat but didn't seem
to really result in anything else. More of a illustrative/conversation
piece to show how easy it is to overload computers.

Bruce Scherer
Portland Public Schools


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