Re: L0lboT
Posted by Andrei on
Thu Aug 4th 2005 at 10:34pm
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2005-08-04 10:34pm
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So... basically... it's a nuke... drops line to FBI e-crime department. :evilgrin:
Re: L0lboT
Posted by Crono on
Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 5:52am
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Crashing the computer IS harmful. While it doesn't do anything to things in physical memory, it puts stress on your hard drive. Every time things aren't destructed properly while using the hard disk your run the risk of corrupting files in use (system files) and damaging sectors on the disk.
That being said. Why in God's name would anyone want to run this and go, "Oh man, that was great!".
Something that'd be more detrimental would be a registry entry that called an executable at startup which initiated an infinite loop that became larger with every iteration (why not use recursion just to make it worse). That'd be more of an attack for your enemies, since they probably wouldn't know it's running. That'd crash the computer once all the ram was used up. Which can happen pretty fast, actually. If you use proper coding, then Windows, or whatever OS, wont kill the program, since it isn't frozen but is actually iterating.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: L0lboT
Posted by Crono on
Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 6:03am
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If you knew that it's harmful (potentially detrimental) why did you claim otherwise twice? Not that anyone would go, "yeah sure, I want to crash my computer for entertainment" and download this thing.
Unless they had a hunk of crap lying around that they'd like to mess with, of course.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: L0lboT
Posted by Crono on
Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 7:32am
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You said it crashes it. Crashing isn't restarting. There's a difference. But if you mean "it restarts because it crashes", then it can be very harmful. But if it just bogs down the system, so you, personally, restart, that's different.
Especially when dealing with windows, this is a touchy thing, since, Windows doesn't protect vital system functionalities. Specifically talking about XP, having your computer crash can easily destroy your user. I'm not sure how it happens exactly, since I've never seen the code, but, I can guess based on their practices.
Anyway, I wasn't attacking you or anything, I was just making a point.
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Re: L0lboT
Posted by G4MER on
Fri Aug 5th 2005 at 9:27am
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Oh brother.. the depths of stupidty that abound here.