Re: How INSTANTLY CRASH XP

From: kk7gw (kk7gw@yahoo.com)
Date: 06/06/02


From: "kk7gw" <kk7gw@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 19:13:46 -0700


Glad to hear it. What happens when you uninstall Zone
Alarm completely? ZA is known for causing instability.
The URLs you mention sure don't crash XP for me.

>-----Original Message-----
>This bug has nothing to do with timeouts.
>
>I found another sequence that also crashes XP.
>This one occurs at a .doc web page found at
> http://www.psc.state.al.us/telecomm/webpage3.htm
>
>Right-click on the .doc file there, then click on 'save
target as',
>up comes the ZoneAlert that IE is attempting to access
the internet
>with a request to permit (yes) or deny(on).
>Click no.
>
>KA-BOOM!
>
>Another Blue Screen
>
>This also occurs with one of the modules in SxS
directory with
>name something like win86 when ZoneAlert is told to deny
its loading.
>XP has now crashed more in the last week than NT 4 and
windows 2000
>crashed on me in 2 years.
>
>It's getting to be SO EASY to crash XP almost at will.
>
>"Hello" <me@here.com> wrote in message
news:3CFEC09D.5010AADB@shaw.ca...
>> Dave Feustel wrote:
>> >
>> > With all critical updates applied and ZoneAlarm pro
3.0 installed,
>> > start IE and visit http://state.me.us/ag
>> >
>> > Zone Alarm will alert that iexplorer is attempting
to access the internet
>> > and ask whether the access should be allowed.
>> >
>> > Click on 'No'.
>> >
>> > KA-BOOM!
>> >
>> > Blue Screen.
>> >
>> > This is very repeatable on my system.
>>
>> That URL times out here all the time.
>
>.
>



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