Posted by Tekime on 2003-05-08 22:56:53 A recently undiscovered feature of Microsoft's flagship browser Internet Explorer has been exposed as of late.
Some might call it a bug, but in the tradition of IE's feature list, this is right in line with things.
Not only that, but this wonderful feature can be exposed with just a simple line of code. Wasn't it nice of Microsoft to make such a user friendly bug?
All it takes to activate this special feature is the following line:
Take special note that 'crash' can in fact be replaced by anything. Say, 'I own joo Bill Gates', or 'This copy of XP is pirated, bizatch'.
On a serious note, it appears that this bug uncovers a null pointer overwrite, so it's not a huge security vulnerability. It will crash IE and throw the following error:
"Unhandled exception in iexplore.exe (SHLWAPI.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access
Violation"
