[MACEP] Just about pointless Windows crash

[Mike Ely]

Interesting crasher.  Launched it using Firefox on Linux and 2 things 
happened:
1) A warning popped up about a potentially risky application launcher 
(the AIM murderer)
2) CPU usage went up for a while, but the computer remained responsive 
(Note: I'm not sure whether the usage was from the crash page or the 
fact that the virus scanner on the concurrently-running winxp session 
under vmware chose that moment to do it's thing.

OTOH, I've seen pages that crash Firefox on OSX to smithereens.  It was 
particularly memorable when I had an extension loaded that brought 
firefox back to it's last-loaded page when it started.  Kind of like 
setting initdefault:6 in inittab, only probably harder to fix.

Moral: everything crashes.  Darn it.

Cheers,
Mike

Bruce Scherer wrote:
> 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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