Yesterday I received an e-mail with a link to
http://216.26.163.62/2005/ss_iraq_01_18 (I took the .html part off of this
url because I don't want anyone to bring it up !!). When I clicked on it I
instantly got a blue screen of death and my machine started doing a memory
dump. Really freaked me out. This was on a W2000 Server using Outlook
Express as my e-mail client. My machine is back up and running now but it
took forever to reboot. I did a virus scan and a spyware scan afterwards
and they both came up clean. I also took a look at the e-mail message
source it also looked clean.
I then brought this URL up on a Linux machine, figuring that it would be
immune to any 'funny' stuff in the link which had been targeted at a
Microsoft machine, and it came up fine. So then was able to look at the
source for this link and saw what looks like some unusual javascript. I
might sound a little far fetched to ask this but is this something that that
could cause a machine to crash ??
Here is the script:
<div align="center"><!-- FASTCLICK.COM 468x60 v1.4 for worldtribune.com -->
<script language="Javascript"><!--
var i=j=p=t=u=x=z=dc='';var id=f=0;var f=Math.floor(Math.random()*7777);
id=8225; dc=document;u='ht'+'tp://media.fastclick.net/w';
x='/get.media?t=n';
z=' width=468 height=60 border=0 ';t=z+'marginheight=0 marginwidth=';
i=u+x+'&sid='+id+'&m=1&f=b&v=1.4&c='+f+'&r='+escap e(dc.referrer);
u='<a hr'+'ef="'+u+'/click.here?sid='+id+'&m=1&c='+f+'" target="_blank">';
dc.writeln('<ifr'+'ame src="'+i+'&d=f"'+t+'0 hspace=0 vspace=0 frameborder=0
scrolling=no>');
if(navigator.appName.indexOf('Mic')<=0){dc.writeln (u+'<img
src="'+i+'&d=n"'+z+'></a>');}
dc.writeln('</iframe>'); // --></script>
<noscript>
<a href="http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=8225&m=1&c=1"
target="_blank">
<img
src="http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=8225&m=1&d=s&c=1&f=b&v=1.4"
width=468 height=60 border=1></a>
</noscript>
<!-- FASTCLICK.COM 468x60 v1.4 for worldtribune.com --></div>
Thank you for you time.
Joe
Java script causing a blue screen of death ?? 
