Causing a BSOD in Windows 2000?

jspenguin · 05-04-2004, 08:50 PM

Is there any way to deliberately cause a bluescreen in windows 2000? I once saw a piece of C code which printed some funny characters to the screen and caused a bluescreen.

Capt_Caveman · 05-04-2004, 09:03 PM

I once saw a piece of C code which printed some funny characters to the screen and caused a bluescreen.

Yes. This is the malware known as internet explorer

jspenguin · 05-04-2004, 09:27 PM

It was something like:

while (1) { printf( "\t\b\b\b\b\b"); }

witeshark · 05-04-2004, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Capt_Caveman
I once saw a piece of C code which printed some funny characters to the screen and caused a bluescreen.

Yes. This is the malware known as internet explorer

After enine's OS suckage post, this may well be the funniest post I have ever seen

SciYro · 05-04-2004, 11:38 PM

ahh so true..

but there are other ways to, my favorite being turning on the computer

iluvatar · 05-05-2004, 03:20 AM

I saw my brother once write an assambly program with ONE instruction causing the BSOD

that was funny...

greetz,
.-=~ iluvatar ~=-.

slacky · 05-05-2004, 03:46 PM

This is Windows we're talking about - crashing is a built-in feature:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;244139

SciYro · 05-05-2004, 05:36 PM

LOL, i knew it was in its nature to crash, but i didn't know M$ actually admits its programed to crash..... this is soo funny