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Hey I'm looking to make a batch file that's a little prank. I looked on Google and i didn't find quite what I'm looking for.
How would i code the file to do this: Copy the program files folder looping. so the hard rive would fill up. Don't want to destroy anything just fill up the hard drive.
thanks.
S15
Filling up the hard drive would be pretty disastrous...it would render it unusable
:eek7:
MLF
You could use a variable as part of the folder name when you copy it, and increase the variable each time it loops. That way each copy will have a different name, so nothing is overwritten. As MLF said, this can be disastrous... Windows does not like to run with less than 10-15% free space...
If it's just a prank that you want to pull off you can just install firefox on his machine.. He will burn !
I just had to say that..
lol. Or make him/her do a full days work with Opera. :-P
Don't even think about it...............the days of boys having fun have long gone.
Schools, colleges, employers, and the law take a very dim view of this sort of thing and totally overreact in many cases.
If you fill their hard-drive then you will crash the computer.............that is a CRIMINAL offence in many countries.
The only time you might attempt such a thing is if you own the machine in question.............and somehow I just know that you don't :rolleyes:
Don't make me smack you!Quote:
Originally Posted by westin
Also:
I have a floppy disk here somewhere (It's been a long time since I even looked at this crap) that I have some of my better "pranks" / Virii on, and one of the things on there is a little .exe that when ran, fills the HD.
I've got a bunch of stuff on there from way back when that I found interesting, and even though I got rid of most of my collection, I did keep a few of the more interesting ones around on some floppies that are clearly marked "Don't FCKING OPEN!" just in case someone gets interested.
Basically I kept my HD killer, a few of the more interesting Viruses I came across, some trojans, back doors, and of course the HD filler, and ONE .exe that I still haven't figured out.
I managed to destroy my first machine with it.... I'm not kidding; I accidentally double clicked on this thing because it wasn't zipped for some reason, and I instantly hit the power button, while staring at the monitor showing a DOS window, and when I turned the machine back on, nothing....
I to this day haven't figured out how it did that. I mean literally, I had Windows 95 on the machine, a bunch of MP3s, and a bunch of porn on it, and when I hit power, I turned it back on, Windows wouldn't work anymore, and when I tried to format the disk, it said the size of the HD was to small for Windows 95 now.
So I tried installing Windows 3.1 I have on floppy, and it said there was no room for that.... I grabbed PC-DOS and got that installed and it said I barely had room. The little Bastard literally ate the HD. I don't mean "Well, I tried, it's screwed" I mean "Wow I can't even boot from a Linux Floppy Disk and just format the whole thing now!"....
I STILL have the floppy that killed the machine... Someone here once sent me a PM about it because they wanted to know how it worked, and according to what I heard, they had to buy a new machine. It killed the one they tested it on.
I save it because I've yet to ever see it again. I have HD Killer and HD Killer Pro, and I know what THOSE are, this is NOT that. This actually seems to physically damage the disk. It's amazing really, so I kept it in my "Lil Bastards Floppy of Revenge".
It's of course Zipped now. Zipped, Gzipped, Tarred, Bziped, and I think I made a Rar too. To basically the file looks like "DontOpenThisEver.tar.gz.bz2.zip.rar" or something.
Thanks for the advice.
I have a few simple ones i'm working on and i've been testing most out of my own pc. i have nothing important so i just reformat when i crash it.
i've been having some fun with batch files. but i want something that they can easily delete. to free up the space. like.. all of the files going into 1 folder.
i can fix whatever i do to my own computer. but theres a few people i'm not too fond of.
Oh what exactly are the laws of sending people some malicious batch files? like deleting registry files? isn't it their fault if they open up a .bat file?
It's of course Zipped now. Zipped, Gzipped, Tarred, Bziped, and I think I made a Rar too. To basically the file looks like "DontOpenThisEver.tar.gz.bz2.zip.rar" or something.[/QUOTE]
thanks for the advice.
oh.. and uh.. think you could send that little monster to me? :halo:
i test alot of the things i've been making on myself. and i just reformat since i have no important information on my computer.
what exactly are the laws of sending viruses?
ahh...good luck with that
AFAIK you cant format a full hard drive...its pooched...as I believe to format it you need room to write the MFT
Dont know for sure...maybe some other OS can do it...but I doubt it
I am a windows girl :)
MLF
This means WAR ! YOU HEAR ME .. WAR ! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by westin
On the topic-
if you just want to play around you can put command prompt with shutdown switch (be smart here) in the startup entries..
Hmmmm, interesting!
From my experience, more recent versions of Windows will try to warn you if you are running out of disk space, so you generally get a chance to reboot into safe mode and clear stuff out.
@gore
All HDDs come with their own operating system, microcode or "firmware".............a bit like the BIOS of a MoBo?
That suggests that you didn't fill the HDD...............I am willing to bet that your little proggy flashes the HDD firmware such that the BIOS sees the drive as something quite different from what it really is?Quote:
I managed to destroy my first machine with it.... I'm not kidding; I accidentally double clicked on this thing because it wasn't zipped for some reason, and I instantly hit the power button, while staring at the monitor showing a DOS window, and when I turned the machine back on, nothing....
I have never tried it of course, but perhaps using the manual settings for the HDD in the BIOS setup might get it recognised? Obviously, the autodetect and preconfigured settings won't work.
The other option would be to try to persuade the HDD manufacturer to give you the program to re-flash the firmware for that particular model.
@MLF
I would use this:Quote:
AFAIK you cant format a full hard drive...its pooched...as I believe to format it you need room to write the MFT
http://www.dban.org/
That will wipe the drive completely and leave it in an empty and unformatted state.
If I wanted to recover data I would use this first:
http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=29
This just boots externally and reads the drive at a low level..........doesn't use MFTs or any Windows stuff. It rips the files and tries to re-assemble them.
But it is you who will have committed the felony offence:lildevil:Quote:
Oh what exactly are the laws of sending people some malicious batch files? like deleting registry files? isn't it their fault if they open up a .bat file?
Pretty much the same as for a drive-by shooting? = felony?:shocked:Quote:
what exactly are the laws of sending viruses?
Thanks Nihil
I knew there was probably something that may recover it....I am not so much involved with that stuff anymore...I have people that do that ;)
I have used data recovery tools for corrupted drives etc...pen drives...undelete tools etc
When I was training for my certs many many moons ago ...NT4 Server...we had a prank that we used to put in the startmenu..where when the user logged on a window would pop up and ask are you sure you want to delete C:\WINNT...and it would then to look like it deletes all the files.....and then a window pops up ....are you sure you want to restart now....and then the screen would go black....hahahahah. Nothing actually happened to the machine...and by hitting esc you could exit the bugger.
Oh...and lets not forget the old BSOD screen saver.... :cool:
MLF
I don't see how you can say that knowing I've been using computers to my advantage, with impunity, going on for the last decade.Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
Hmmmm,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb897558.aspxQuote:
Oh...and lets not forget the old BSOD screen saver....
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11...-sysinternals/
Yes................now a quasi-official Microsoft product.............just in case you can't get any real ones of your own :D:lildevil:
ByTe!................where's the good stuff like this from the Linux community? :lildevil:
And why can't I set the Opera crash screen as my screensaver?:D
They have the BSOD screensaver for Linux. People are always asking me if there is something wrong with my computer when it comes on. heh.
It is part of the XScreensaver package.
http://www.novell.com/products/linux...reensaver.html
Nihil:
The HD filler works by making a bunch of copies of itself and misc folders over and over again until it's full. The one that screwed the disk itself, heh, BIOS itself didn't work for fixing either. Like I said, I've still never seen anything like it before.
Hi gore,
That would seem to confirm my suspicion that it actually flashed the HDD's firmware?Quote:
The one that screwed the disk itself, heh, BIOS itself didn't work for fixing either.
If you are feeling brave:
http://www.firmwarebase.com/
Seagate HDD firmware:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/cr...p?DocId=207931
Laptops:
http://hddguru.com/content/en/softwa...otable-CD-ISO/
// Off Topic but about HDDs//
If you try to repair a drive by replacing the "motherboard" do check that it has the same firmware version or it won't work ;)
Replacing the board on Fujitsu drives probably won't work anyway as the firmware is uniquely identified to the drive in at least some models.
// //
i think if you overwrite the whole drive with killdisk it would still work ill have to find an old drive and try that , but all the persons data would be goneQuote:
Originally Posted by morganlefay
I've always been interested in that exe, haha. Ever since I joined AO. Have you ever attempted to reverse engineer it? To see what it is actually doing? What about running it in a virtual machine, on an old HD?Quote:
Originally Posted by gore
Nah, I'm no programmer. A few people have asked me for copies here and there, but sending it is obviously a pain because it's going to be stopped by basically every email client in the World, and every email service too, and the ones I did get it to, didn't really respond to it.
You could always upload it to a file sharing service like rapidshare or mediafire. You don't even need an account. As far as I know they don't scan files that you upload, and if they did, you could always encrypt the zip file before uploading. I have some reverse engineering knowledge. I can at least find what system calls it makes, to see if it flashes the HD firmware or whatnot. If you want, you could shoot me a pm with a link.
I might be OK sending it to you like maybe in an email after zipping tarring and whatever elsing it heh. But uploading this thing on file sharing where someone could accidentally find it, even if they do open it without reading the description... Don't think I should risk that. I don't mind how I sent it to Pedophiles, at all, but who cares about them? I just want to make sure it's not accidentally opened by someone.
PM me an Email addy if you want and I'll send it. I can make a ZIP of it, then tar that or something and bzip2 it, and maybe 7zip lol. Make as many extensions as I can heh.
Allen, i can organise a FTP account on my webserver, you can upload it there if you want.
I'd be cool with that man. That way I can direct link it in a PM or something. And of course you'll have a copy. Just don't open it whatever you do lol. (And if you DO want to open it, the last machine I saw it open on, by accident, was a Windows 95 machine.... A little DOS window popped up, and I saw it going REALLY fast.... This is like instant... I literally went OH **** and hit the power button as it was opening up, and as I was reaching for the button, I saw it opened a DOS Window, and I hit power before it finished).
Whatever you do be CAREFUL. I couldn't even get Windows 3.1 working, and fdisk and fdisk /MBR wouldn't work.
Ok Broseph, check your e-mail. :)
if you have any trouble let me know. :)
Hey Kris,
I got the mail, and I'll get that going in a bit. I've had a REALLY long day today. So basically, I'm getting ready to relax. I woke up today, after finally sleeping, because I was awake for 36 hours straight without ANY sleep.
I was awake for 36 hours.... And then finally at 12:30 AM, I went to bed and slept. And then I had to get up at like 11:30 AM, which, 11 hours of sleep after being up that long, isn't as much as it seems.
So, I got up, hurried up and got ready, and then we had to leave. So I didn't have much time to actually wake up, so, we got ready, and left, and I was running my Cousin to a few places, and just getting errands done.... I'm like exhausted from it all.
After all that running around and standing around I had to do today all day, my back is like Killing me heh. So yea, I'm going to try and relax now with my Wife. I'm installing FreeBSD 8.0 on my test machine right now, and once I get that rolling and have a minute, I'll grab the Floppy disk that thing is on, or just grab it from my server and upload it on there for you.
I had pure Caffeine for Breakfast lol.
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Originally Posted by gore
On top of that, we used to put gigantic paper clips through the write switch hole, just in case we were stupid enough not to read the label. :D