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:
>
>> Perform a Windows Vista Suicide by Pressing Just 2 Keys!!!
>>
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>>| In its present form, the bug seems to create nothing more than a
>> Denial of | Service condition. It remains to be seen if it can be
>> exploited remotely or | if it permits code execution. Still, Iʼd put
>> my money on a bug, rather than | on a security vulnerability.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Perform-a-Windows-Vista-Suicide-Pressing-Just-2-Keys-59886.shtml
>
> It isn't a DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) until many computers
> are working together to bring a service offline.
>
> For instance, many computers sending masses of DNS lookups, to
> potentially overwork a DNS server (usually bandwidth drops first - DNS
> lookups are usually hash searches).
>
> The problem here is not clear if the Windows host suffers from this
> problem via a network, one would have to make custom software to send
> the key events to Explorer.exe for this to happen. The problem seems
> very much a local problem. I would like to see a video of this as the
> article is not very clear.
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.
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