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Like allowing a poorly coded game hijack your screen and having no way to fix it but using control alt del and hitting keys hoping it will close the offending p

by speeder 13y ago

Like allowing a poorly coded game hijack your screen and having no way to fix it but using control alt del and hitting keys hoping it will close the offending program... Or crashes related to Adobe products, or Apple products... I know it is mainly not windows fault, but there are some OSes that are more resilient to stupid programs.

ksk 13y ago
Do you happen to remember what game it was? I haven't seen a case in over a decade where pure user-mode code caused a denial of service type attack on the OS. There is a possibility that kernel-mode DRM crap installed by the game caused problems in your case. When you're in kernel-mode though, all bets are off and no OS can save you. Also I don't understand what you mean by resilient to stupid programs? A general purpose OS should terminate badly written programs the instant it runs into a crashing-bug.