How to crash a remote computer

[parksie]

This is a right laugh on a school intranet running Windows 9x PCs...

Go Start->Run, then type

\\computername\share\con\con

If they have drive c shared...then watch those blue screens popup...and the user's words will be blue too :D

[Xenonic_Rob]

I love the Con/con error in Windows!
It's great for crashing!

[parksie]

I just don't know why MS never fixed it in 98...

[parksie]

They wouldn't know where to start ;).

[aaudette]

I onc3e applied for a dubugging position at microsoft, but i left when they asked what a bug was...

[Gen-X]

There is no such thing as a bug.


Only an "Unresolved Technical Opportunity"

:D

[dimava]

for the con thing, does the blue screen apear on your computer to (the user who types it in)? and what error message comes up. and does it delete anything?

[kb244]

All I get is a Error Dialog that says "The Network Name Cannot Be found"

using this

\\Pc04\share\con\con

and yes that is valid, because I can get to C:
just by doing this

\\Pc04\c

[parksie]

But is the remote computer running NT?

dimava - it appears on the remote computer. The message is something about VFAT, and it doesn't delete anything (although open files will be obliterated slightly).

[parksie]

Just checked Windows Update...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-005.asp