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  2. List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products - Wikipedia

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    "The Windows Team" Easter egg in Windows 1.0 Microsoft Bear appearance in an Easter egg Windows 95 credits Easter egg Windows 98 credits Easter egg Candy Cane texture in Windows XP. Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1 all include an Easter egg, which features a window that shows a list of people who worked on the software along with a "Congrats!" button.

  3. Criticism of Windows XP - Wikipedia

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    Windows XP has been criticized for its vulnerabilities due to buffer overflows and its susceptibility to malware such as viruses, trojan horses, and worms.Nicholas Petreley for The Register notes that "Windows XP was the first version of Windows to reflect a serious effort to isolate users from the system, so that users each have their own private files and limited system privileges."

  4. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    The Blue Screen of Death on ReactOS, similar to that found in Windows XP up to Windows 7. Note the usage of a different font compared to its contemporary Windows versions. The Red Screen of Death in Windows Longhorn build 5048. Note the word "execution" is misspelt as "exectuion", which would be fixed in the later builds.

  5. Fatal system error - Wikipedia

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    The user will only see the blue screen if the system is not configured to automatically restart (which became the default setting in Windows XP SP2). Otherwise, it appears as though the system simply rebooted (though a blue screen may be visible briefly). In Windows, bug checks are only supported by the Windows NT kernel.

  6. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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    July 6: Bohmini.A is a configurable remote access tool or trojan that exploits security flaws in Adobe Flash 9.0.115 with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 under Windows XP SP2. [ 50 ] July 31: The Koobface computer worm targets users of Facebook and Myspace .

  7. Blaster (computer worm) - Wikipedia

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    Blaster (also known as Lovsan, Lovesan, or MSBlast) was a computer worm that spread on computers running operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000 during August 2003. [1] The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003.

  8. Bush hid the facts - Wikipedia

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    While "Bush hid the facts" is the sentence most commonly presented to induce the error, the bug can be triggered by other strings, for example "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh" [2] or "this app can break", [3] and (even "a "or "z!".) [1] Diagram explaining the bug. The bug occurs when the string is passed to the Win32 charset detection function IsTextUnicode.

  9. Windows Error Reporting - Wikipedia

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    The Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel applet was replaced by the Maintenance section of the Action Center on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.. A new app, Problem Steps Recorder (PSR.exe), is available on all builds of Windows 7 and enables the collection of the actions performed by a user while encountering a crash so that testers and developers can reproduce the situation for analysis ...