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Flaw in 3 Web Browsers Exploited to Fill Disks With Cat Pics


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"Feross Aboukhadijeh, a Web developer and a Stanford computer science student, has identified a vulnerability that could be exploited to flood a computers hard drives with junk data in a short amount of time. Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and Chrome are impacted by the issue.

In order to demonstrate his findings, Aboukhadijeh has set up a website called FillDisk.com which fills the users computer with pictures of cats..."

@ http://news.softpedia.com/news/Flaw-in-Chrome-Safari-IE-and-Opera-Exploited-to-Fill-Disks-With-Pictures-of-Cats-Video-333653.shtml

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Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and Chrome is four browsers, not three. LoL.

Safari is killed by Apple for Windows. IE shouldn't even be considered. Opera killed it's own identity by switching to Webkit, which leaves us with one, Chrome. :P

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Cat pics!!!

jalaffa would love to be infected. :)

He's probably already self infecting as we speak!

He's now too busy looking at those cat pics to even notice there's this thread about the infection; :D

And he thought its a birthday present to him. <_<

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I tried this last week on IE 9, 10 and it stopped working after 4 GB of data. :huh: ^_^

Also its said that Chrome crashes after some period of time when you try this, so probably it can't fill disk to the max. :lol:

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I'm damn confident of browsing the site of Mr. Feross Aboukhadijeh, using my chief browser without harm. :showoff:

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Opera went up to 76mb before a pop-up appeared...not too shabby! Opera all the way!

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They most certainly are not :D But it seems clicking "stop the madness" won't delete all of those files, since I've still got some left in there. I had to delete them manually to get disk space back (over 300 MB).

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SnakeMasteR

Almost every file will be deleted if the browser is closed completely, i had only 2 remaining. :)

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