25 February 2009 crash

This glitch has been fixed by Jagex.

On February 25, 2009, along with a large update to RuneScape, a bug was discovered that crashed the game for players. This was done through the use of the public chat feature. If players typed in the ALT code for the character "µ" (ALT+230 or ALT+0181), and entered it into the chat, it would cause everyone around the player (including the player himself, unless their public chat was set to off) to crash. The page would be redirected to a crash report page. This was abused by many players in dangerous areas, as well as the Grand Exchange in several worlds. Several precautions were taken in order to prevent players from being logged out due to this bug:




 * Jagex advised players to stay in quiet and remote areas.
 * Players advised others to keep their public chat off.
 * Four minigame areas were shut down to prevent quicker spread:
 * Bounty Hunter
 * Clan Wars dangerous free-for-all arenas
 * Staked duelling
 * Duel Arena tournaments
 * Jagex encouraged players to completely stay away from PvP worlds until the bug was fixed.

At 12:50AM GMT, a server fix was announced on the official forums and was implemented soon afterwards. This bug fixed the glitch, as well as re-opening the previously locked areas.