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Terayon

11-02-05, 06:06

Whats the run command to delete a vital peice of windows, or format your hd while your in windows, or completely screw up your computer? Im just wondering what the command was i saw in these funny mirc chat history website and cant remember what it was. Basicly guya said to type somthing in run to guy b and guyb eventualy got disconnected from it.

Sorry i cant be more descriptive.

-Demon-

11-02-05, 10:38

Even if I knew one...wouldn't tell you as it seems you want to cause damage to someone elses machine. Just because they might not be as computer literate as you doesn't give you the right to screw up thier machine.

Jeez posts on here get worse....

Terayon

11-02-05, 11:05

Why would i want to mess up someones comp with a run command. There are so many better ways to mess up a comp. Im realy just curious. I looked up how to make a bomb just becouse i wanted to know. I didnt go out and make a huge bomb though.

Bugs Gunny

11-02-05, 11:54

There used to be a vulnerability in mirc where if you knew the ip adress of the other person you could gain acces to their FAT32 discs. Especialy if he had a shared network without passwords. And people still have a lot of those.

Lexxuk

11-02-05, 15:40

Windows has this lovely feature in the CLI (Dos Prompt) called "omg help, wtf does this command do? O_o" which gives you a list of the command and how you can control that command.

Try typing in..

.. ah bugger, was going to get you to type in

cd c:\
del /f /q /s .*

but that would be evil and would have deleted every file on your hard drive :p

try del /? for help on what the command does, but remember, if its XP, XP will silently replace needed files, you also cannot delete a file that is in use, and if the above is correct and you use this command on someone elses computer without their permission, your performing a criminal act which can land you in much trouble.

If however you are really dead set on totally messing up a computer, get this..

http://www.sun.com/solaris ;)

jernau

11-02-05, 15:52

The usual one for those jokes is "rm -f" but that's from Unix/Linux systems.

It's quite hard to delete critical system files from Windows NT, 2K and XP. No single standard command will do anything that destructive. You can't, for example, format the boot-disk or delete files marked as "hidden" "read-only" or "system" without some effort.

The command Lexx gave shouldn't touch hidden or system files or those for which the user you are logged on as does not have delete/edit rights. Really critical files (and those locked for use) are locked by the system so even an administrator has to manually release them before they can be deleted.

Of course there are ways to get around all this but none are simple one-liners.

If you wanted to knock someone off-line the easiest would be to release their DHCP lease or forceably dismount their C drive. Both are possible in one line and neither cause permanent damage but I'm not telling you how.

Lexxuk

11-02-05, 16:24

If you wanted to knock someone off-line the easiest would be to release their DHCP lease or forceably dismount their C drive. Both are possible in one line and neither cause permanent damage but I'm not telling you how.

can i tell him? :D /rel....

Spoon

11-02-05, 19:16

jernau

11-02-05, 19:34

http://www.ss64.com/nt/

del

deltree

And...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/del.asp

from:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/ntcmds.asp

:eek:
:rolleyes:

They won't delete protected files. They call the same functions as selecting the files in the GUI and pressing delete and have the same restriction.

You can cause mayhem that way of course as a lot of important files aren't protected but it's hardly cunning or even effective.

Eddie

11-02-05, 19:46

Plus.. you can't really delete files that are in use.

(Which are undoubtedly important ones, if their required to run the system)

Eddie

Xeno LARD

11-02-05, 22:32

rm -rf
Is the *nix one, Recursive (enters all dirs and doesn't ask for permission).

deltree c: | echo y
I belive is the win one, that's delete the root of C and answer Y (Yes) to any questions.

pwn!

jernau

11-02-05, 22:43

Close enough but in both cases the system will protect itself to some extent (unless you are running your users as root in *nix in which case you deserve all you get). I doubt someone asking this question is a big Unix CLI user ;).