Crash Your PC Using HTML Code

[LFC]

At first I thought someone was joking when they told me this web link can crash your PC using simple HTML code and Internet Explorer. I suspected it might crash just the browser at worst and was simply a joke related site at best. However, after trying it I can confirm it can crash your PC. But it does so through an apparent bug in some video card drivers.

On my test machine I received a BSOD in nv4_disp (the nVidia display driver). The driver version on my test machine is the nVidia ForceWare v77.77 WHQL Certified driver. I would have suspected this to happen with BETA or custom drivers but it does so with WHQL Certified ones. This was very surprising. The code attempts to load an extremely large image that causes the video driver to go into an infinite loop and Windows Crashes.

http://www.populartechnology.net/

Thanks to http://warp2search.net

[Jeremy1]

IE7 with ATI CATALYST 05.7: nothing at all.

[wicker_man]

The thread title made me laugh for some reason:) (e.g. why the such a good christian boy like you would want to do such a thing?) :laugh:

[Kupo-Cheer]

Yeah, I've already seen it and tried it and also tried it just barely and I still get no crash.

[ring0]

man, it's so sweet to not have a browser so deeply rooted into my os that it can cause trouble like this.

yays.

[Chew]

Firefox, Catalyst 5.8's

Nothing

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Tried this a while back, nothing

Tried it again, nothing, just a odd bug with the scrollbars (they indicated huge abouts of data, but scrolling from the top to the bottom only moved the content a few milimeters)

[jamend]

I have Catalyst 5.6 drivers and IE 7 and I got a BSOD.

[phedot]

Well it's the old 9999999x9999999 image that can't be opened :)

[skase]

Yup, my ****ty Windows XP SP1, pentium 3 866, 512 RAM crashed. Was due for a restart anyway.

[Devion]

Didnt crash but was one huge brown image for me lol.

Omega 5.6 Catalyst

win2003

IE6

wating the scrollbar jump around was fun :p

[Danny Weed]

  Quote

Why aren't you cool enough to see a blue screen of death right now? You probably are using an OS other than Windows oorrr you have a video driver that can handle this ooorr you are using a image resizing script. MS has still not issued a patch.

Opera wins :p

Crashed with IE :crazy:

Worked at first, then the music stopped, cursor froze - then it started again, and then i got the Infinite Loop BSOD :(

Edited August 22, 2005 by Danny Weed

[STV]

Windows XP SP2 (Tablet PC 2005)

Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for Mobile

IE 6

almost crashed. i think the reason that people think that it crashed is because they are so impatient. they tend to try and click here and there, but when they discover that the mouse isnt responsive...they instantly think that the computer has crashed.

in cases like this, Alt + F4 is your friend.

STV

[mircleman]

nothing for me, although im running xp and vista with all latest fix's but tried with I.E. 7 and dear park. running ati 9200 se

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

Click this image to crash your browser (you've been warned!): http://www.timdorr.com/images/huge.jpg

Also, note the filesize when you get a chance :)

Edit: Nevermind, it doesn't appear to work anymore :(

[jamend]

  STV said:

Windows XP SP2 (Tablet PC 2005)

Intel Extreme Graphics 2 for Mobile

IE 6

almost crashed.  i think the reason that people think that it crashed is because they are so impatient.  they tend to try and click here and there, but when they discover that the mouse isnt responsive...they instantly think that the computer has crashed.

in cases like this, Alt + F4 is your friend.

STV

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No, it actually crashed with a BSOD for me.

[Gowcra]

Well im using Xp, ie6 and sp2 and it didnt crash for me :omg:

[Danny Weed]

  timdorr said:

Click this image to crash your browser (you've been warned!): http://www.timdorr.com/images/huge.jpg

Also, note the filesize when you get a chance :)

Edit: Nevermind, it doesn't appear to work anymore :(

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1.4 KB (1,337 bytes)

Wicked :p

[+mrbester MVC]

Ahh, I remember when you could get IE to crash in just 12 characters:

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[Slimy]

doesn't crash my computer but does make it almost freeze..

[eldoncino]

i tried the original link in firefox "could not be found" came up, tried the guy's reply link in IE and firefox firefox didnt load it properly but checked the memory usage and:

[Colin-uk Veteran]

the original link made my pc restart :|

timdorr's link made my browser freeze and use up to 90,000K Memory (100% memory usage) but managed to close it without it crashing the pc :p

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

Nothing happend on either link.

[Ferret]

The machine locked for about 0.5 seconds while the image was attempting to load.

I've got Firefox running on this machine - I'll try it on my IE6 machine in a bit.

I'll also put the lock down to the fact I have SETI running too....... ?

[JMoney]

Win Xp Tablet Edition 2005

on a Toshiba Portege 3500

Firefox - nothing, but a big brown picture

IE6 - BSOD, this is why I switched from IE