Re: Java reboots win95 (fwd)

Autor: Łukasz Bajoński (lbajon_at_sgh.waw.pl)
Data: Fri 23 Jan 1998 - 08:14:47 MET


karpio_at_fenix.xyz.lublin.pl (Andrzej Karpinski) napisał(a):

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 11:33:44 +0100
> From: "Joe [UNKNOWN-8BIT] Lindström" <nak_at_GEOCITIES.COM>
> Subject: Java reboots win95
>
> Java applets causes win95 to reboot
> -----------------------------------
>
> (If this is known stuff, i appologize)
>
> I have successfully been able to reboot several win95 machines
> with a simple java applet. All the applet does is to try and load
> new browsers with the showDocument(url, target) function. When
> trying this on IE3 i only needed one loop with showDocument to
> make everything freeze, with 10 threads all doing the same thing
> my computer immediately rebooted after initializing the applets.
> In IE4 and Netscape you need more threads, and i also used a
> web page with more applets running at the same time.
> They have the same effect though, it either hangs or reboots.
>
> I have only tried this with relatively slow computers, but my guess
> is that if you add more threads to each applet or more applets to
> each webpage more powerful computers will be effected too (if they
> aren't already).
>
> If you want to see if your computer is vulnerable go to
>
> http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-10867/fork/fl00d.htm
>
> this one messes up my p166, 16M ram for sure.

NT górą - wysypuje się tylko szkapa z komunikatem o za małej ilości
pamięci wirtualnej :)
Reszta działa dalej bez najmniejszej straty stabilności :)))

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