Crash Your PC Using HTML Code

[GeneralAres]

Crash Your PC Using HTML Code (Popular Technolgy.net)

At first I thought someone was joking when they told me this web link can crash your PC using simple HTML code and Internet Explorer. I suspected it might crash just the browser at worst and was simply a joke related site at best. However, after trying it I can confirm it can crash your PC. But it does so through an apparent bug in some video card drivers.

On my test machine I received a BSOD in nv4_disp (the nVidia display driver). The driver version on my test machine is the nVidia ForceWare v77.77 WHQL Certified driver. I would have suspected this to happen with BETA or custom drivers but it does so with WHQL Certified ones. This was very surprising. The code attempts to load an extremely large image that causes the video driver to go into an infinite loop and Windows Crashes. (read more)

This crashed my PC too. This is not a direct link to the crash but to an article descibing it that has a link. With this warning:

Warning The following link may cause your system to crash, hang or reboot. This is not a Virus or Malware and no damage will be done to your PC. It will simply expose a bug in your video drivers if it exists. However, proceed at your own risk.

 

[bsobel]

No crash here with ATI drivers, but a solid hang for about 30 seconds while (I'm guessing) some buffers were allocated.

I suspect the WHQL just picked up a new test for future drivers

Thanks for not posting a direct link. Sure we'll have to start banning in OT once others notice this...

Bill

 

[Brentx]

Wierd. I have the ATi Cat 5.8's for XP x64, and I had no BSOD, but I did have a solid hang. I couldn't do anything without it taking a minute to process, so I just had to reset my machine. I'll try it on my Win2K laptop and see what happens , those drivers are old, I think about 2003.

 

[kamper]

Was there something special about the image too, or would stretching just any old picture that much do the trick?

 

[GeneralAres]

Just stretching the image would do it.

 

[nweaver]

Page loaded, but if I tried to scroll around at ALL, I had a hard lock. Gforce 4. ti 4200 with 7.72? drivers

 

[theMan]

i tried to press ctr-alt-del after a while, but then the screen went black and then the bsod came up. ive got 77.77 drivers. that was funny.

 

[KoolDrew]

Mine crashed

 

[Ecgtheow]

Safari handled it just fine.

 

[tyanni]

Definitely just crashed my D610 using IE. It has an ATI X300, so not just nvidia specific. Bluescreen and everything. cool.

 

[WobbleWobble]

It made my 6600GT stutter in Firefox at home. Does nothing to my work system with Intel Extreme

 

[oupei]

no problems at all with my 6800nu and 77.72 drivers. don't see the pic either though... unless it's supposed to be all white or something.

 

[AmberClad]

I think I did something wrong. I clicked on the link (the one with the warning in red font). Right after that, the browser window had a completely brown picture in it, then after about a sec it turned into a large completely black one that got resized down by Firefox. Then after another second, there was the "Done" loading message at the bottom of the browser.

That's it. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. What is this thing supposed to do? I have the 77.72 drivers. Should I try the 77.77 ones?

 

[Nothinman]

No problems here, the image loaded in under a second and I could scroll around in it just fine.

 

[statik213]

FC3 + mozilla + S3 drivers didn't even flinch.

 

[Mesix]

WinXP x64 + Firefox + X800XL + Cat5.7 = a VERY brief (like 1 second) hang.

 

[silverpig]

x800xl winxp

in firefox it loaded fine and i could scroll
in IE the program hung and everything got slow... had to ctrl-alt-del and kill IE

 

[SinNisTeR]

no problems here.

<- using lynx (text based browser) muahaha

 

[RichieZ]

Why aren't you cool enough to see a blue screen of death right now? You probably are using an OS other than Windows oorrr you have a video driver that can handle this ooorr you are using a image resizing script. MS has still not issued a patch.

Safari 2.0 OSX

 

[shabby]

Mine froze of sorts, i could move the mouse every 5 secs or so, so i just pressed alt+f4 and all was well.
Win2k sp4 with 6800nu and 77.76 drivers, ie6.

 

[Maximilian]

"Why aren't you cool enough to see a blue screen of death right now? You probably are using an OS other than Windows oorrr you have a video driver that can handle this ooorr you are using a image resizing script. MS has still not issued a patch."

Windows XP HOME!! and proud

 

[GeneralAres]

You have to be running Windows and use IE to test it. It does nothing in Linux or Opera and from what I can tell not always in Firefox as he says in the article. If it freezes leave it alone for a minute or so and see if goes to a BSOD.

I get it everytime with Windows XP SP2, IE and the nVidia 77.77 Drivers.

 

[Tony Williams]

MSI K8N Neo4
Venice 3000+ (AMD)
512 x 2 Value, Corsair
6600GT

Whoa! so cool ... my PC hung then I was clicking loads and hitting control, alt and delete and 20 seconds later loads shot on my computer!

 

[Armitage]

No problem on FC2/Mozilla on an nVidia card & nvidia drivers - loads in about a second or so, scroll around, etc. with no problem.

 

[xtknight]

No crash here with IE or Firefox in XP 32. Some sluggish mouse movement, otherwise not much a problem. The image did turn black in Firefox probably because of a GDI leak. It hangs up worse in XP x64, though I did close it. It loads fast and I can scroll around and everything in Fedora Core 4 (AMD64)/Mozilla Firefox. Same in regular Mozilla. Gotta love Linux. In Konqueror, it shows a big picture of some guy. WTF? LOL. I'm not kidding. All of these platforms have the latest NVIDIA accelerated drivers.