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Anybody remember this gem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke

by maqr 11y ago

Throwaway90283 11y ago
I think my favorite is the bug where you could delete any folder from a user's computer, just by linking them to a site with a few lines of code inserted in the source. I think it was on XP, and it would trigger Windows help to open at the same time.
- euyyn 11y ago
  Yeah, you'd trigger a very specific help:// URL that happened to accept as a query parameter the path to a folder. That folder was created by the help page, which would put some temporary stuff in there and, when the user closed the help window, would remove the folder and its contents (because you have to clean after yourself!). The obvious thought is... "what if I point it to a folder that already exists?" Yep. It was definitely there before XP, at least since 2002.
  - przemoc 11y ago
    XP was RTMed on August 24, 2001 and GA was October 25, 2001. But I can understand why you wrote what you wrote. Early XP experience for many remains repressed memory, because it was quite buggy (be it OS itself or drivers delivered with it, BSODs were a norm), far from stable 2000 SP4, which I kept using for a long time. XP around SP2 (August 25, 2004) got usable.
  - yuhong 11y ago
    AFAIK it was fixed in XP SP1 and after user backlash they also released a patch for RTM.
eli 11y ago
I remember patching it and then scripting mirc to seek out the handle of the person who sent it via the source IP.
- pkrumins 11y ago
  I scripted mIRC to WinNuke everyone on join in all channels. Something like this: ON *:join:#: { /run c:\winnuke.exe $gettok($address,2,64) }
golergka 11y ago
In high school, we used it (and variations) on each other all the time during CS lessons, so teachers ended up moving us to DOS.
peteretep 11y ago
The first thing I did when I saw the mention of OOBD was Ctrl+F for "nuke" and was disappointed to not see it :-(

Anybody remember this gem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke

by maqr 11y ago

Anybody remember this gem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke

I think my favorite is the bug where you could delete any folder from a user's computer, just by linking them to a site with a few lines of code inserted in the source. I think it was on XP, and it would trigger Windows help to open at the same time.

euyyn 11y ago
Yeah, you'd trigger a very specific help:// URL that happened to accept as a query parameter the path to a folder. That folder was created by the help page, which would put some temporary stuff in there and, when the user closed the help window, would remove the folder and its contents (because you have to clean after yourself!). The obvious thought is... "what if I point it to a folder that already exists?" Yep. It was definitely there before XP, at least since 2002.
- przemoc 11y ago
  XP was RTMed on August 24, 2001 and GA was October 25, 2001. But I can understand why you wrote what you wrote. Early XP experience for many remains repressed memory, because it was quite buggy (be it OS itself or drivers delivered with it, BSODs were a norm), far from stable 2000 SP4, which I kept using for a long time. XP around SP2 (August 25, 2004) got usable.
- yuhong 11y ago
  AFAIK it was fixed in XP SP1 and after user backlash they also released a patch for RTM.

eli 11y ago

I remember patching it and then scripting mirc to seek out the handle of the person who sent it via the source IP.

pkrumins 11y ago
I scripted mIRC to WinNuke everyone on join in all channels. Something like this: ON *:join:#: { /run c:\winnuke.exe $gettok($address,2,64) }

golergka 11y ago

In high school, we used it (and variations) on each other all the time during CS lessons, so teachers ended up moving us to DOS.

peteretep 11y ago

The first thing I did when I saw the mention of OOBD was Ctrl+F for "nuke" and was disappointed to not see it :-(