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<blockquote data-quote="quad" data-source="post: 16301598" data-attributes="member: 17952"><p>Did you ever use IRC? In the early 90s there were #warez channels you could join and then request a file that had a list of FTP servers with usernames and passwords. My buddies and I used it for a few years to get games, warez etc.</p><p></p><p>My computer was once hacked by a guy on one of the IRC channels. He pinged my IP address. Back then I had my Windows set to boot directly into the OS with username / password set to defaults. So the hacker took a chance that my passwords were default and was able to map my C drive to his computer over the Internet. This was in the days of dial up when we did not use routers with firewalls. So all the ports to the computer were open. The hacker then copied a .bat file over my autoexec.bat file. It had a bunch of commands calling for:</p><p></p><p>del c: *.* /s</p><p>del d: *.* /s</p><p>del e: *.* /s</p><p></p><p>All the way down to del z: *.* /s!</p><p></p><p>So after I was finished with IRC and rebooted my computer I heard the hard drive churning and not booting into Windows. I can't remember if it was 3.1, 95 or NT. I immediately shut the computer down. Turned it on again and pressed Ctrl + Break to cancel the autoexec.bat file. When I edited the file with Norton Utilities in DOS I could see all the delete commands in there. Fortunately I stopped the computer fast enough were I did not lose personal files. I had to reinstall Windows though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad, post: 16301598, member: 17952"] Did you ever use IRC? In the early 90s there were #warez channels you could join and then request a file that had a list of FTP servers with usernames and passwords. My buddies and I used it for a few years to get games, warez etc. My computer was once hacked by a guy on one of the IRC channels. He pinged my IP address. Back then I had my Windows set to boot directly into the OS with username / password set to defaults. So the hacker took a chance that my passwords were default and was able to map my C drive to his computer over the Internet. This was in the days of dial up when we did not use routers with firewalls. So all the ports to the computer were open. The hacker then copied a .bat file over my autoexec.bat file. It had a bunch of commands calling for: del c: *.* /s del d: *.* /s del e: *.* /s All the way down to del z: *.* /s! So after I was finished with IRC and rebooted my computer I heard the hard drive churning and not booting into Windows. I can't remember if it was 3.1, 95 or NT. I immediately shut the computer down. Turned it on again and pressed Ctrl + Break to cancel the autoexec.bat file. When I edited the file with Norton Utilities in DOS I could see all the delete commands in there. Fortunately I stopped the computer fast enough were I did not lose personal files. I had to reinstall Windows though. [/QUOTE]
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