UGN Security Forums UGN Security: Underground Off Topic prank

wow, its been a while since i posted, well anyway.. thers this one guy i hate and vice versa.. so i got on a diffrent s/n on aim and told him somehow i knew he had a virus.. and he had to delete the folder "system32" which was sad of me to do but he deserved it. he actually feel for it, he claims that yeah he erased the folder and stuff.. but isnt stuff supposed to be [censored] up for him now... he says only his sound dont work but thats about it.. i dont know hah it was just like a war between us but i hadnt talked to him for months, well yeha i wanna know what the concequences of doing that are, well i know it aint good but how come hes still up and running and only his sound dont work, well thats what he says <img border="0" alt="[Machine]" title="" src="graemlins/machine.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[Bust a Cap]" title="" src="graemlins/cap.gif" />

Well it probably means that he's shittin ya, man. As far as I know, System32 contains the majority, if not all, of the drivers that Windows requires to run, as well as numerous important DLLs and other such files. It seems the prank has really been pulled on you

WRONG, if he's using Win98 than it hardly contains anything. System is the major container of drivers and stuff.

I noticed Win 95 had like no drivers in System32, but with XP, most drivers are in System32...

Not to mention Win ME and I think 2k also... Yet 95 and 98 (even SE), when installing drivers would ask for the CD... You can copy the cabs etc over, then you don't need the CD. Also remember you can always download drivers... Just putting in my 0.2 cents of driver info (looks in hand and notices... [censored] it's only 1 penny, drops it and runs away).

Yeah, I remember hes got a pretty crappy as computer, like one of those with a on and off switch on the monitor like a wall light lol, those are funny... damnit i need to find a way to get him good, well i dotn think about it but it wouldnt hurt to mess him up, and ooh yeah.. XP has a crap load of stuff on system32, damn and i hated XP thanx to my helpful friend, i was able to find a win2k and i took my xp outta my computer and said goodbye, cuz it sucked, all there was, was the prettiness (XP=extra pretty) and so far im pretty happy with my 2000, aah! i got carried away, i went from talking about pranks to my new system.. umm ill just end it here . <--ends there <img border="0" alt="[Thumb]" title="" src="graemlins/thumb.gif" />

i'm glad he was shitting u cuz you tried to pull of something which you didn't even know what the consequences where. THAT'S sad...

windows does a search for drivers when it uses them first it searches for the 32bit drivers in system32 then it searches for 16bit drivers in system if it cant find the 32bit. So its not gonna totally [censored] his [censored] up but it will downgrade it a bit which will probably be unoticable to him.

If he is really that dumb to fall for something like that.why didnt you have him delete some things from the REGISTRY????

yeah...but the again...he just told him that without knowing wut the hell would happen.

renaming io.sys and/or autoexec.bat would stop this dude's PC from booting...but then again that's to simple and though-out...why not delete something called system...it MUST be important...

Fact is, you're a stupid dumb [censored] for doing this prank in the first place. Someone had to say it...

heh, I personally wouldn't have done the prank cause it's not my style... but I do believe that gullible people are free-for-all. I have very little tolerance for stupidity and wish them the worst.

Even if I knew nothing about computers I wouldn't delete anything if somebody told me to over the internet. check that - ESPECIALLY if I didn't know [censored] about something I would trust anybody on say-so.

hey well hes dumb enough and go delete system32 so yeah lol, and i think hes running umm pretty old so yeah, oh well ill just message him with all my screen names and after hes responded to em all ill warn like a hell! thats the way to go, or i could email him a virus but like thats too trendy..

If he is this dumb, Then he would have done it in the windows GUI right?

Now there is a many a system file you can't just right click and delete. I'm at work now but can you delete system32?

I think this guy is just trying to look 1337.