So I Sent My Friend An MS-DOS 'Virus'

[Regulith]

I prefer fork bombs.

He mentioned those too. Can't remember what it does.

[Ad Bot]

[jordguitar]

My cousin has a very large file (A few petabytes, I believe) that has been stuffed into a zip file and compressed down to a very small size that will do terrible things to your computer if you open it.

And how many hard drives and power supplies does he have to hold 1,125,899,906,842,624 B or even more? Seriously

[Niliscro]

He mentioned those too. Can't remember what it does.

Code: [Select]

@echo off
:hack
Start
goto hack
This?  It keeps opening the command

Or even

Code: [Select]

@echo off
:hack
Calc
goto hack
which opens the calculator over and over

[Regulith]

-things-

Oh yeah. It's that thing that makes an infinite loop.

And how many hard drives and power supplies does he have to hold 1,125,899,906,842,624 B or even more? Seriously

I don't know how he holds it, I just know it exists. I do not question the magic of things that forget up your computer.

[jordguitar]

Oh yeah. It's that thing that makes an infinite loop.

I don't know how he holds it, I just know it exists. I do not question the magic of things that forget up your computer.

Your a idiot. He needs to have that much space in the first place to do it. And it will take YEARS to compress that much data into such a small file. Plus it would corrupt it.

[DrMobius]

I don't know how he holds it, I just know it exists. I do not question the magic of things that forget up your computer.

I'd be surprised if your computer could even be run after that went off.

[Niliscro]

I don't know how he holds it, I just know it exists. I do not question the magic of things that forget up your computer.

Well, if he had a 4TB hard drive that isn't partitioned and gradually made and compressed 2TB files over and over until he had a large enough file, he could do it in like a week.

[DrMobius]

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/42-kilobytes-unzipped-make-45-petabytes/
Basicly, It's zip trees.

[Miga]

Your a idiot.

Irony. :D
Sorry jord, had to point it out.

[Regulith]

Your a idiot. He needs to have that much space in the first place to do it. And it will take YEARS to compress that much data into such a small file. Plus it would corrupt it.

Not knowing something doesn't make me an idiot, it makes me uninformed, which I am when it comes to all of this.

I'm just telling you what he told me, I don't know how it works.

EDIT:

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/42-kilobytes-unzipped-make-45-petabytes/
Basicly, It's zip trees.

See? It's possible, or so this thing says.

[Niliscro]

Oh, the @echo off at the beginning of my code is really only needed if you want to insert a witty message to accompany their computer frying.

[Regulith]

Oh, the @echo off at the beginning of my code is really only needed if you want to insert a witty message to accompany their computer frying.

"C: you later"

Hahaha I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about. I don't even know if that made sense.

[n0cturni]

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/42-kilobytes-unzipped-make-45-petabytes/
Basicly, It's zip trees.

That's hilarious.

[DrMobius]

So if you really want to forget someone up, send a zip bomb :D

[Private McDoggy]

forgetin' Yottabytes are crazy man.