Yes, but since NT 4.0 moved a lot of the GUI stuff into ring 0, there
are potentials for applications to do this.

There was the one where a 4-line Windows App could cause a BSOD 100% of
the time. Then the Internet Explorer/F00F bug combo was also a good
one...



povray.org admin team wrote:
> 
> >Also, the STOP's are a pain. Whenever an app crashes badly, NT generates a
> >STOP; just what it sounds like, a STOP halts the operating system and forces
> >you to restart.
> 
> An app (presuming it's a user-level app) cannot (to my knowledge) induce a stop
> (i.e. bugcheck). Only a faulty kernel-mode component (i.e. ring 0) can do this.
> 
> This generally means a bug in a device driver. It is possible, of course, for
> an app to induce a bugcheck (AKA BSOD, the 'Blue Screen Of Death') if it is
> communicating with a device driver in such a way as to flush the bug out. Also,
> some apps come with their own kernel-mode drivers (though this is uncommon).
> However, the same principle applies there - the bug is in the device driver.

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