~BD~ wrote:
> §ñühwö£f wrote:
>> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>> news:gfudnZulffqy2dTSnZ2dnUVZ8lOdnZ2d@bt.com:
>>
>>> §ñühwö£f wrote:
>>>
>>>> Because he dosn't know how to boot his macintosh from a linux live cd
>>>> and do it safely?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why would anyone want to do such a thing in the first place?
>>>
>>> Makes no sense to me!
>>>
>>>
>> Go stand in the corner, dimmy.
>
> :-)
>
> Whilst standing there, I happened across this:-
>
> Quote:
>
> Not necessarily, no. This dummy virus doesn't actually cause any
> damage to the system. However it does make changes to the registry
> from the command line.
>
> Now the one I wrote back in the days of Windows 95/98, did. It
> rendered the hard drive un bootable. In other words, once the victim
> restarted their computer it halted on a black screen with the words
> "Missing operating system" as it deleted key boot files; io.sys,
> msdos.sys and command.com.
>
> The only recourse from that (should one be so lucky) is to boot from a
> system diskette and "sys" the drive from the command line.
>
> Issuing the command: sys C: would fix that by putting those files back
> onto the hard drive.
>
> I also had two files from the Windows directory being targeted as
> well.. they were user.dat and user.da0. Which meant that any and all
> programs that were installed would have to be reinstalled again since
> the system's registry would be gone too.
>
> A "dummy virus" is so named due to the fact there are no actual virus
> code antivirus software could scan for. These were merely batch files
> (files that use the .bat extension) that contained commands the
> computer would recognize and execute.
>
> If I really wanted to be devious I could use something like this in a
> batch file....
>
> @ECHO OFF
> CD/
> attrib -r -a -s -h ntldr
> del ntldr
> ECHO.
> ECHO Please restart your system...
> ECHO.
>
> In the above example, regardless what directory that was ran from it
> would go right to the root of the drive. At that point it would remove
> the read only, archive, system and hidden attributes to ntldr then
> delete the file without confirmation.
>
> But that would render the system inoperable and display the "NTLDR
> missing" message. My method makes things more interesting due to the
> simple fact that I could use the command: net view \\ip.addy.goes.here
> to look for the shared drive. Unless I knew the IP address was static.
>
> Then once I found it issue the command net use * \\ip.addy.goes.here\C
> to map the drive. It basically allows me to see the hard drive in My
> Computer as though it were physically attached to my system by adding
> another drive letter. Then I could do whatever I wanted.. copy
> files\folders from their hard drive to mine or vice versa, move
> files\folders around, delete files, rename files, etc.. and they would
> never know.
>
> **
>
> I'm wondering if the author is correct in what he claims. Some guidance
> on this will be welcomed!
>

Your reading comprehension is pretty low, huh?
"windows 95 98 days..."

And any tard who would click on a .bat file without knowing what it does
before hand deseves to be PWND.

You
Daft
****
^_^

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