Security News “Link Of Death” Is Back — How To Crash A Windows Computer With Newly Found Bug?

[frogboy]

Short Bytes: Similar to 2015’s link of death bug in Chrome, a Windows bug has been unveiled. This bug affects NTFS filesystem and allows a malicious website to try and load images with special filenames like $MFT to crash your system. This bug affects Windows Vista, 7, and 8.1. Microsoft has been informed about this bug.

Back in 2015, we told you about the “link of death” bug that crashed Chrome web browser. This was due to a 26 or 30 character URL string that added a null character, leading to crash. Chrome ultimately fixed the issue. If you’re having even longer memory, you might be remembering similar computer crashing bugs from Windows 95 and 98 era.

Full Article. "Link Of Death" Is Back — How To Crash A Windows Computer With Newly Found Bug?

 

[ravi prakash saini]

It looks like second half of 2017 is going to be very interesting

 

[Malware Person]

It looks like second half of 2017 is going to be very interesting

agreed

 

[ravi prakash saini]

As mentioned in the article windows 10 is not affected ,i just checked it by myself.I requested all the fellow members to pray for my boss because on coming Monday his windows 7 is going to meet link of death

 

[Weebarra]

Jeez, not another one. I'm getting to the stage that i am afraid to use my computer, lol.

 

[tryfon]

Glad I'm not running windows

 

[ravi prakash saini]

my boss has met link of death now he is shouting like crazy