Bring Down Internet Explorer In Six Words

Marcion writes "Some handy Japanese guy called Hamachiya discovered a bug in Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, an asterisk when used as a wildcard can crash IE as soon as the user attempts to go to another page." The article claims the "five HTML tags and a CSS declaration" crash IE7 as well as IE6, but I couldn't get IE7 to fail. This page says that as of June, IE6 was at about 37% market share and IE7 under 20%.

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If you don't speak Japanese....

[Dogtanian]

...then here's a word perfect translation of that article (courtesy of Babelfish).

Erm... then again, maybe not.

(If you liked that translation, you might enjoy Babelfish's attempt at Slashdot.jp.)

Re:If you don't speak Japanese....

[arkhan_jg]

From slashdot.jp:

When the policeman of the tie, rule you violate, hello punishment of the kitty?

Heh. I can just imagine a 'tie-inspector' walking round making sure your business attire is up to standard, or else he unleashes an angry cat on you. Or maybe he tortures a cute kitten in front of you, not sure on that point.

Re:If you don't speak Japanese....

[Gregory Cox]

Obviously it should read:

When Thai police violate a rule, they get the Hello Kitty punishment.

See? Makes perfect sense.

Bring Down A Website In Six Words

[millwall]

Post
A
Crappy
Article
On
Slashdot

Re:Bring Down A Website In Six Words

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Pacaos? That's an interesting acrostic. What does it mean?

PacaOS is the operating system for Pacas - its a fork of rodentOS. HTH.

Re:Bring Down A Website In Six Words

[Odiumjunkie]

I discovered a weird IE bug... there are six words that, when included on a webpage, stop IE ever being used on that computer again:

get
firefox
from
mozilla
dot
com

Bring down my system in 13 chars.

[BlackPignouf]

:(){ :|:& };:

Dr.Who

[gpmidi]

Dr.Who: I can bring down your administration in one word. Prime Minister: One word. Even you aren't capable of that. Dr.Who: Okay, six words. Dr.Who (wispers to aid): Don't you think she looks tired?

Evil Plans Thwarted

[PinkyDead]

DAMN YOU SLASHDOT!

Why go to all that trouble?

[annamadrigal]

Alt-F4 gets rid of it much more quickly, and doesn't rely on a Japanese website not having been /.ed.

Re:How is this fucking useful ??

[Dragonslicer]

200 HP? Is your shit a 20th level Barbarian or something?

*Six* words? Amateurs.

[cbrichar]

Six words? Please.

As any pimply-faced 14 year old surfing the web alone in his bedroom could've told you, all it takes is your Mom unexpectedly calling your name from right outside your door to cause IE to be shut down immediately.

Re:Hmm..

[GIL_Dude]

IE 7 on Vista here did have the crash just as documented. Open a new tab and start typing a URL and it crashed it.

Re:Is it crashed or not?

[mopower70]

Pre-tell then, what is a crash? If I could pre-tell what caused a crash, I'd avoid doing it in the first place. But I don't think the precogs come online until 2053 or something like that.

Re:Is it crashed or not?

[Cigarra]

My usage conforms completely to the usage in my office.

Bill?!? is that you??