hornett Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 A 'friend' of mine sent me to a link which made XP give me a BSOD. I thought it must have been using some crazy code or something, but it appears to be just a simple image stretched to large proportions which causes the crash. No problems under any other O/S, and I'm fully up to date with patches on XP SP2. Displaying the image alone at normal sizes doesn't cause the crash, so I can only assume it's a bug in XP's image resizing code or something...(also my bluescreen mentioned graphic drivers) Has anybody ever heard of this before? WARNING: THIS LINK MAY CRASH YOUR PC!!!! http://www.jgiannotti.com/pwned/crash.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Dom_ Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 didnt crash browser.... but ff crashed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon2611 Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 a black square in ff 1.1 alpha (deer park) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msntrev Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 i used Deer Park alpha and it did crash my pc, but the BSOD looks a bit weird, it looks just like a picture and it has a mouse cursor on which doesnt actually move.....weird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitchenutensils Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 it jsut made my computer freeze (like it does alot!) and not be able to move the mouse etc. except hte numlock key still worked... weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makeshift Hammer Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I've got my comp set to reboot on serious error...and it did so :| Bastids :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Didn't even slow it down. :s Windows + Firefox I feel left out. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Didn't affect me at all, then again I'm not using Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VGVL Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I just got a blank page in OmniWeb on a Mac. Nothing happened. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msntrev Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 my pc froze for about a minute then the BSOD appeared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyoung1616 Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Blue screened mine, gave nv** error. Cody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
User6060 Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 I've got my comp set to reboot on serious error...and it did so :| Bastids :p 586020528[/snapback] my computer also restarted, and it takes my computer like 2 minutes to boot :crazy: so i just made a sandwich and decided from now on not to click links that are made to crash your computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ev0| Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 it drew a big old brown image and slowed it down to a crawl for about a minute but no crash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecotrojan Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 yup, froze my pc, wonder how it did that>? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Auto-moved from Web Browser Discussion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
planetik Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 ^ smart move (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoXY Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 No BSOD.....but my computer did re-boot....nice code...:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hornett Posted June 8, 2005 Author Share Posted June 8, 2005 It's pretty scary stuff! Let's hope it's not a major fault in some underlying subsystem... PS. Posting from the Popeye.nl coffeeshop in Amsterdam! It's a beautiful day here :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnston Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 wow thats scary that a script as simple as <HTML> <BODY> <IMG SRC="./imagecrash.jpg" width="9999999" height="9999999"> </BODY> </HTML> can crash an xp sp2 system fully up to date by going to the website, ah well opera just loaded it fine :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmh Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 do you actually need an image there? Or will it just reserve that space for the image. You know what I mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophism Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 windows+firefox the image just crashed firefox and that was it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_loblaw Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 It made my PC crashed and the PC is up to date too. Cool link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makeshift Hammer Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 do you actually need an image there? Or will it just reserve that space for the image. You know what I mean? 586036046[/snapback] Yeah, you need it. I took that code there and made an html page from it, opened it and nothing happened. So it's the loading of the image that causes the crash (probably due to its size.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apex. Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Does nothing on the mac. And now my sprite ejaculated onto the floor >=( ****ty bedroom setup! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie_webbuk Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Crashes my PC on every browser. BUT Not my Mac, :), you we've all learn't a lesson today. :D Use a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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