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, I’d put
> my money on a bug, rather than | on a security vulnerability.
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> 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.
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