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Java Applet Kills 95

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday January 18, 1998 @07:37AM from the things-not-to-do dept.

Aaron writes "Joe Lindström wrote this Java applet that causes Windows 95 machines to crash. It is especially vulnerable to slower machines. The applet creates alot of different threads (processes) and then runs them all. This is way too many threads for Win95 to handle, therefore locking up the system. I snagged this off of Bugtraq. You may find the source code here."

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