Question

Purely for academic reasons.

is it possible to programmatically cause a BSOD to occur under windows xp/windows 7 in C#/.NET.

I’m suggesting there’s got to be some dirty hack, or some vulnerability to abuse to cause this.

I’m looking for a snippet of code to run that guarantees a BSOD in a finite period of time.

Answer 1

Killing process “csrss.exe” causes BSOD.

But you need Administrator privileges to do this. I’m not sure there is a way to do this purely with restricted privileges.

EDIT:

Yep, it works alright. I cooked myself a nice little BSOD 🙂

System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("csrss")[0].Kill();