If you’re referring to the cat, it’s a fork bomb. IIRC your system should realize what’s going on and terminate the process before your PC commits seppuku, unless your system is really old. Either way I wouldn’t recommend running it
A similar attack used to be able to be done in Windows by creating a batch file that calls itself at the end.
We used to do it where it would open the command prompt several times and then call itself, so after a couple seconds you would have dozens or hundreds of command prompt windows opening. On a system that only had 128 megs of RAM it didn’t take long for the system to become unresponsive.
Then make a shortcut, call it Internet Explorer with the blue E, and wait.
I also wrote a script that would create 1000 folders in your network drive and then change the owner so you couldn’t delete them. We used that one when people left their machine unlocked.
If you’re referring to the cat, it’s a fork bomb. IIRC your system should realize what’s going on and terminate the process before your PC commits seppuku, unless your system is really old. Either way I wouldn’t recommend running it
A similar attack used to be able to be done in Windows by creating a batch file that calls itself at the end.
We used to do it where it would open the command prompt several times and then call itself, so after a couple seconds you would have dozens or hundreds of command prompt windows opening. On a system that only had 128 megs of RAM it didn’t take long for the system to become unresponsive.
:loop notepad.exe goto loopThen place the .bat in the startup folder
Pulling the script out of the vague recesses of my brain, what we did was more like:
Then make a shortcut, call it Internet Explorer with the blue E, and wait.
I also wrote a script that would create 1000 folders in your network drive and then change the owner so you couldn’t delete them. We used that one when people left their machine unlocked.