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by throwaway123x2 1893 days ago
Oh God, even though I knew what it was, my heart still skipped beats at the BSOD and the reformat
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Seriously.

I was running it windowed, on a Linux box.

And it still triggered the "... oh F---!" response.

Very, very well done.

I've not seen it in decades, but there was a great little site in a similar vein years ago that would detect your OS (Windows or Linux) and be an "animated GIF" of a remote exploit of some sort or another, the usual "run exploit, grab root, run id to prove you're root" thing (the Windows version was similar). Except, it was dynamic based on your public IP. So most people didn't get it. And sysadmin types, who usually did know their public IP, had to restart their heart.