Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

[Rodrigo Goya <lucent () securenet com mx>]

What if something like this would be used in a worm like Nimda or CodeRed,
would it crash all the infected servers? Bet that'd really call the admin's
attention. Though it'd make the propagation a little difficult...

Maybe by infecting mail clients (like Nimda) and make them scan for web
servers and crash them?

Cheers,
Rodrigo

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:17:05AM +0900, IIJIMA Hiromitsu wrote:
> > Some guys arround here are having fun with a little C program which causes
> > Windows200/XP to reboot:
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> >
> > int main(void)
> > {
> >    while (1)
> >       printf("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
> >    return 0;
> > }
> >
> > I don't know exactly where it was first seen, and who discovered it; just
> > thought to forward it here maybe others have insights.
>
> Originally it was posted to USENET in Japanese: the original groups are
>       fj.os.ms-windows.programming and japan.comp.lang.visual-c++.
>
> The original poster then posted English translation into English newsgroups,
> it was forwarded by some people to SecurityFocus mailing lists.
>
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