Re: Shortcut...... may cause 100% cpu use!!!

[madsaxon <madsaxon () direcway com>]

At 07:37 AM 10/30/03 -0800, Bipin Gautam wrote:
> BUT THE POINT HERE IS....... THE SHORTCUT IS POINTING TO ITSELF  WHICH 
> WILL EVENTUALLY LEAD TO A DOS!!!

It seems to me that what you've discovered is that infinite loops are 
resource hogs. I wouldn't call this a vulnerability so much as a computer
science 101 revelation.  Interesting from a theoretical perspective,
perhaps, but not really worthy of a lot of discussion here. If someone
is able to plant a self-referencing shortcut on your desktop, you have,
as they say, larger fish to fry.

m5x

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