RE: NT/Win2K bug

From: wim.remes (wim.remes@skynet.be)
Date: 10/25/01 

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:26:39 +0200
From: "wim.remes" <wim.remes@skynet.be>
To: focus-ms <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>, forensics <forensics@securityfocus.com>, TWyrick@paulo.com
Subject: RE: NT/Win2K bug
Message-ID: <3BE1EAD2@www.twigger.be>

I tried it on a Win2K WS and it rebooted my PC without blue-screening.
Haven't tried it on NT yet ... but I suspect it will work fine there...

cheers,

Wim

>===== Original Message From TWyrick@paulo.com =====
>I just tried this out, and although it worked on an NT 4.0 Workstation (with
>service pack 6), it didn't do anything on several Windows 2000 workstations.
>Apparently, this has been fixed at some point under Win2K. Perhaps in
>Service Pack 2?
>
>- Tom
>
>
>
>>The easiest way to do this is normally by using the Kill utility on the
>>Resource kit and killing the Winlogon service. This requires
>administrative
>>rights though.
>>
>>Alternatively, the last time I did this, I used a bug in NT/Win2K posted on
>>Bugtraq (My apologies - I have forgotten who posted the article but I
>assume
>>you can check it in the archives) for which there arent fixes available yet
>>(to my knowledge). This involves opening a DOS box, entering a command and
>>after entering the command, pressing F7 (to display the history) and enter
>>in quick succession. This causes a memory dump no matter which user
>account
>>is logged on.
>>
>>Hope this helps.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Ian de Villiers
>
>
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