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Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug


From: IIJIMA Hiromitsu <delmonta () ht sakura ne jp>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:17:05 +0900

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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飯嶋 浩光 / でるもんた             http://www.ht.sakura.ne.jp/~delmonta/
IIJIMA Hiromitsu, aka Delmonta           mailto:delmonta () ht sakura ne jp
                                         mailto:delmonta () pop01 odn ne jp


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