-=PCTechTalk=- Re: stack overflow
- From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:16:39 -0400
I'm glad you explained this! It brings back memories - of my
winME system. I always got those messages when I had winME -
among other problems! I was re-booting twice a day to keep
it running!!
Cris
----- Original Message -----
From: dktrfaustus@xxxxxxxxxx
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:44 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: stack overflow
On 4 May 2005 at 20:05, Michael Scott wrote:
> Hello Group,
> I am on the net looking for some stuff and a box with the
> heading
> Microsoft Internet Explorer told me I had a stack
> overflow:179.
>
> Yeah....right ...what does that mean???
"Stack Overflow" has been around since the days of MS-DOS.
It's an
age-old, cryptic error message that you hardly ever see,
these days.
To put it [very] simply, not enough memory has been assigned
for a
certain task, and the system goes belly-up as a result.
If you are running Win95/98/ME, try adding the line
"MinSPs=8" to
your SYSTEM.INI file, then reboot. When the system has
restarted, try
your best to push IE to the limit! If you don't receive the
stack
overflow anymore, that shoud have done the trick. Increasing
the size
of your page file wouldn't hurt, either.
If you are running XP or 2000, the stack overflow message in
Internet
Explorer is more indicative of a comprimised system. An
active Denial
of Service attack will attempt to reallocate memory in an
attempt to
crash the system.
Make sure you have a firewall up and running, and visit
www.windowsupdate.com ASAP to get all the security updates.
Faustus
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