What if...

[xoot]

someone posted this HTML code inside a vBulletin message:

<script language="Javascript">
var x = 0;
while (x = 0) {
document.write("Flood!");
}
</script>

I'm not malicious or anything, just explaining the dangers of HTML and Javascript.

 

[julguribye]

What does it ?

 

[nkuvu]

I don't think that the messages have unlimited HTML capability. For example, this thread has HTML off entirely.

Even if it wasn't, I doubt that javascript would be enabled for similar reasons to what you posted.

julguribye: I'm assuming that you mean "What does it do?" It's an infinite loop that writes "Flood!" to the document.

 

[julguribye]

Originally posted by nkuvu
julguribye: I'm assuming that you mean "What does it do?" It's an infinite loop that writes "Flood!" to the document.

scary...

 

[nkuvu]

Not really. It's not like it would crash your browser. Well, maybe it would. The really scary part is that there is javascript like this roaming free on the web. But that's more due to poor programming than malicious intent.