Fatal system error
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Fatal System Error (2010) is a book by Joseph Menn, an investigative technology reporter at The Washington Post, and previously with Reuters, the Financial Times and Los Angeles Times. The book investigates the espionage network of international mobsters and hackers who use the Internet to extort money from businesses, steal from tens of millions of consumers, and attack government networks. The main focus of the book is on Barrett Lyon and Andy Crocker and the capture of cybercriminals Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov.
]] A fatal system error (also known as a system crash, stop error, kernel error, or bug check) occurs when an operating system halts because it has reached a condition where it can no longer operate safely (i.e., where critical data could be lost or the system damaged in other ways). In Microsoft Windows, a fatal system error can be deliberately caused from a kernel-mode driver with either the or function. However, this should only be done as a last option when a critical driver is corrupted and is impossible to recover. This design parallels that in OpenVMS. The Unix kernel panic concept is very similar.
See also
Screen of death System crash
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