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Title: I think old, but 5 lines of HTML to crash Windows...
Post by: Bossieman on July 20, 2005, 10:06:56 AM: Found out about this a couple of month ago.
Some kind of bug makes windows crash. Dont know if SP2 has fixed this. Havent had the chance to test it yet.

Warning: Dont know if it works, Please kill all important work curently on your computer if you have Windows.

http://www.dd.chalmers.se/~sandvik/winie.html

Some browsers are immune to this bug
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Post by: THX on July 20, 2005, 10:08:23 AM: Firefox works great
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Post by: Bossieman on July 20, 2005, 10:16:56 AM: I know opera are supposed to be immune. So Firefox works fine 2. Nice. Maybe the bug is actually in Internet Explorer.
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Post by: Samwise on July 20, 2005, 10:26:30 AM: Works fine here. Using IE and SP2.
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Post by: Bossieman on July 20, 2005, 10:47:18 AM: Test now Samwise.......
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Post by: Evi on July 20, 2005, 12:58:36 PM: How is this supposed to make Windows crash?
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Post by: Bossieman on July 20, 2005, 01:15:24 PM: well you tell me? It actually does the job very good.
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Post by: mm on July 20, 2005, 01:43:45 PM: evi,

look at the dimensions

makes IE sluggish for me, but then the image begins to load
go go 2GB ram
/shrug
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Post by: THX on July 20, 2005, 01:48:57 PM: on this compy (p3 800, 384mb ram, xp sp1) it crashed it hard. Couldn\'t do a damn thing.

Another nail in Xbox\'s coffin
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Post by: Evi on July 20, 2005, 02:05:29 PM: Quote
look at the dimensions
Yes, the dimensions are what struck me the most. However, it ran perfectly fine in Firefox.

Har har...this is so funny:

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftinypic.com%2F96xhmg.gif&hash=6606971e6f473cde29cbde8cbce389e25a49f910)

The only error I had was an image that loaded saying I had an error. Oh no!!!! :rolleyes:

*lame*
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Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 21, 2005, 02:02:27 AM: Anyone still using IE deserves this.
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Post by: JBean on July 21, 2005, 04:38:38 AM: It crashed my work computer with 2 gigs of ram. Win XP fully updated

:shrug:
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Post by: Kurt Angle on July 21, 2005, 07:30:21 AM: my computer froze then reset.
Title: I think old, but 5 lines of HTML to crash Windows...
Post by: Bossieman on July 21, 2005, 08:16:09 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Living-In-Clip
Anyone still using IE deserves this.

That is actually true but this has to do with Windows XP. The big doesnt work on older versions of Windows.
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Post by: Paul2 on July 21, 2005, 10:15:39 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Kurt Angle
my computer froze then reset.

same here and i am using firefox with window xp sp2....
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Post by: Nolaws on July 21, 2005, 11:40:23 AM: nothing for me.. huhe page with long scrollbar... but that\'s it

winxp SP2 + firefox
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Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 21, 2005, 12:25:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Bossieman
That is actually true but this has to do with Windows XP. The big doesnt work on older versions of Windows.

Quote
Some browsers are immune to this bug

Make your mind up.
Is it a browser problem or Windows?
If Opera and Firefox are immune to it, it would seem like an IE problem to me.
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Post by: Bossieman on July 21, 2005, 01:29:46 PM: I will make up my mind.
I say that if you have Opera you are safe. If you have IE or FF you are not safe.If you are running win 95, 98, ME and IE or FF you are safe.
If you have NT you are not safe. So it is acombination of OS and browser, ok
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Post by: mm on July 21, 2005, 01:35:20 PM: neither
it\'s a memory issue
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Post by: Phil on July 21, 2005, 02:26:36 PM: so why does my mac have no issues and have a quarter of the memory of your pc.

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Post by: Evi on July 21, 2005, 02:49:10 PM: First link Firefox doesn\'t crash.

Second link...it starts to crash, but then shows a black screen on the webpage and then decides to crash.

Internet Explorer...crashed instantly on both.

My Apple PC...didn\'t crash on either link.

I need a faster Windows PC. :/
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Post by: Living-In-Clip on July 22, 2005, 06:48:00 AM: Quote
Originally posted by mm
neither
it\'s a memory issue

To be more specfic, how IE handles the memory.