Re: Dumb IE6/XP denial of service found on the web

On a side note, this managed to b0rk my Firefox aswell.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111
Firefox/1.5

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Kim Christensen
kim.christensen_at_gmail.com
On 31 Dec 2005 18:13:12 -0000, 8ux1fpd02_at_sneakemail.com
<8ux1fpd02_at_sneakemail.com> wrote:
> Wow, a simple big jpeg completely crashes (and reboots) Windows XP SP2 with all the latest patches when viewed in IE6.
>
> -> DON'T GO with Internet Explorer if you don't want to crash: http://www.geocities.com/teh_kids/index.html (no problems whatsoever in Firefox or Opera).
>
> Is this a known unpatched vulnerability?
>