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Re: [News] Windows Vista DDOS Weaknesses Highlighted

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:17:23 GMT, ed wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:05:08 -0500
> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:04:27 GMT, ed wrote:
> 
>>> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:42:21 +0100
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Perform-a-Windows-Vista-Suicide-Pressing-Just-2-Keys-59886.shtml  
> 
>> Precisely.  Actually, I just tried it, and while it bogged down the
>> system for about a minute, eventually the explorer process exhausted
>> memory and just shut down all the instances.
> 
> I don't care to know about windows, but if explorer.exe dies, then
> that's as bad as a reboot on the desktop really since it probably means
> all the child processes of explorer.exe die also, which would be any
> program which it started.

No.  That's not how Windows works.

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