As the geeks on slashdot are gleefully discussing someone has found a ludicrously simple way to construct a malicious HTML page, or even link, which crashes Internet Explorer.
There are even shorter variants, and it doesn't just kill IE, it kills anything using the MS HTML libraries (Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Explorer, and no doubt a few more too)
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Date: 2003-05-04 10:36 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-04 15:22 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-05-05 02:53 (UTC)<html><form><input type></form></html>
There are even shorter variants, and it doesn't just kill IE, it kills anything using the MS HTML libraries (Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Explorer, and no doubt a few more too)
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Date: 2003-05-05 21:09 (UTC)Wow.
O, IE of little troubleshooting!