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Calum:
so, I thought that this pagewas worth of a mention here, and i would even suggest that it get kept in the feature articles section (along with that great rant from a few days ago in the unix section). I'm sure people can think of an easy way to put this to good use.  
quote:I.   Background  
Local and Remote users can crash Windows '98 systems using special
 crafted path-strings that refer to device drivers being used.
 Upon parsing this path the Ms Windows OS will crash leaving no
 other option but to reboot the macine. With this all other running
 applications on the machine will stop responding.  
NOTE:
This is not a bug in Internet Explorer, FTPd and other
 webserver software running Win95/98.  It is a bug in the Ms
 Windows kernel system, more specific in the handling of the device
 drivers specified in IO.SYS, causing this kernel meltdown.
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[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

Master of Reality:
isnt there any programs in windows that need the IO.sys?

Calum:
nope...  none at all  :rolleyes:

Master of Reality:
if you create a link to /dev/null it just says file not found in mozilla.

[ May 25, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

Master of Reality:
it will work in linux if you make a hyperlink to it. click, netscape should crash

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