I believe it came from a uunet news group. The original was subtely
different. It had something more like printf(" \t\t\t\b\b\b\b"). We tried it,
and it works. You get no warning ! The PC just re-boots ! We tried various
combinations but found the above worked on all PC's. It works in java too !
In fact it will lock NT as well, but not cause it ro re-boot. Imagine
embedding this into the subject of an e-mail, doesn't Outlook execute stuff
found in the subject / title fields ?!?!
Owen
On Thursday 01 Nov 2001 6:16 pm, you wrote:
> I know it's not a Cooker-subject, but it's too comic and I want you to
> smile with me ;o)))
> Have a nice weekend!
>
> Claudio
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:19:47 +0200
> From: Teodor Cimpoesu
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: weird Windows 2000/XP bug
>
> Some guys arround here are having fun with a little C program which causes
> Windows200/XP to reboot:
>
> #include
>
> 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.
>
> comments?
