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Hello,

I d like to know how to call Blue screen of death under Windows Xp/Vista.
(link to tutorial appreciated)

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This thread asks how to "call" a BSOD. That’s not something this community will help with when the intent is to crash other people’s machines or write malware — as pointed out, that crosses legal and ethical lines. If the goal is learning, debugging, or testing your own code in a safe way, there are proper, lawful approaches below.

For legitimate testing: use an isolated test environment (virtual machine or dedicated spare hardware) and configure Windows to produce and save crash dumps so you can analyse them later. Microsoft documents how to enable kernel-mode dump files; the built-in Driver Verifier is the supported way to stress-test drivers; and Sysinternals supplies an official test utility (NotMyFault) for generating controlled crash conditions on lab systems. Always run these tools only on machines you own or on isolated test VMs, keep snapshots/backups, and ensure pagefile/dump settings are correct so dumps are written. (NotMyFault) (Enable kernel-mode dump file settings) (Driver Verifier guidance). (learn.microsoft.com)

A simple, safe workflow: take a VM snapshot, enable kernel dump settings, run Driver Verifier or another approved test tool to reproduce the issue, capture the dump, then analyse it with WinDbg (for example using !analyze -v) to find the faulting driver or stack. After analysis, revert the VM snapshot. Virtual machine snapshot features make destructive testing reversible. For debugging tools and dump analysis see WinDbg documentation and VM snapshot docs. (WinDbg overview) (VirtualBox snapshots). (learn.microsoft.com)

If the real intent is to build malware or crash other systems, stop — that’s unlawful and harmful. If you want help setting up a safe test lab or learning crash-dump analysis, state that and the community can point to learning resources and debugging workflows.

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Member Avatar for Ancient Dragon

I don't think you can, unless of course you add something to your program that will crash the operating system :)

Member Avatar for jan1024188

Well I need a good Virus than... :(

I dont want viruses

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> I dont want viruses

What about trojans?

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Well I am writing a trojan right now...but I dont know how to make OS crash.

All what windows does it locks up.

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Hmm, wouldn't writing random data to random address do it?

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>>Well I am writing a trojan right now...

We don't discuss such things here so I'm closing this thread.

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