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Thursday 9 November 2006, 4:36 PM
Microsoft offers downloadable Blue Screen of Death
Want to pretend your machine's crashed? Well, this is your opportunity, as Microsoft has brought us a download of its famous Blue Screen of Death.
Available from Microsoft's own site, it even checks your system config to replicate a real system crash.
The download even cycles between different Blue Screens of Death and simulates re-boots every 15 seconds or so using your own system data.
I'm not sure whether this is some kind of early April Fool's Joke, or indeed whether Microsoft knows it's offering the download.
BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2 can be found in the microsite of Sysinternals, a company Microsoft bought this summer.
As Microsoft itself says, go "amaze your friends and scare your enemies".
Only you could turn your friends into enemies with this.
Available from Microsoft's own site, it even checks your system config to replicate a real system crash.
The download even cycles between different Blue Screens of Death and simulates re-boots every 15 seconds or so using your own system data.
I'm not sure whether this is some kind of early April Fool's Joke, or indeed whether Microsoft knows it's offering the download.
BlueScreen Screen Saver v3.2 can be found in the microsite of Sysinternals, a company Microsoft bought this summer.
As Microsoft itself says, go "amaze your friends and scare your enemies".
Only you could turn your friends into enemies with this.
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A number of people have tried this file and their Anti Virus has intercepted it with the following:
joke-Bluescreen.c virus found.
