Interesting chain of events

[text] ferlatte 12 days azo The Second Life updater just downloaded the updater.exe from the website and ran it with no validation. One day that returned a 404. Cool thing about Win32 if you try to run an EXE Windows checks to see if its a valid format PE. I its not it assumes that its a COM 16 bit x86 instructions no header no validation. The 404 page when interpreted as x86 bytecode effectively opened the LPT DOS device and wrote garbage into it Windows would map that into your actual printer driver in some cases if you had a printer connected directly to your computer. Cheap inkjet printers dont do any validation so they would freak out spew paper and in one case physically break