I was using TAILS, like I frequently do. I was downloading a video to an external HDD. It was downloading alot faster than usual for tor (about 250kb/s). I played a video that was large (over 1 gig), the video froze in full screen for a while. I tried to move the mouse but the icon was gone. I hit esc button, hit ctr-alt-del, though I don't think that works with Linux. About 2 or 3 min later, the video left full screen, and a message box popped up that said "You are currently logged in as Debian Live User. The system will now shut down in 60 sec". I hit cancel, closed the video player. I lost my internet connection, when I tried to reconnect, I could not pick up any networks when I usually have 10+ around. I tried to open the log viewer and i got the message "Error, could not allocate memory". My computer has 3 gb ram. Did I over do my memory, did I get hacked, did I encounter a bug?

What you describe is what usually happens in out-of-memory situation. Given you are saying that you had a 1 GB file in memory, that sounds highly plausible.
Comment by Tails Sat 13 Oct 2012 10:15:45 AM CEST