purposeful crashing of my computer

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:39 pm

From: Vindigan
To: paul laffing
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2003 4:28 pm
Subject: Get over it..
They probably wont let you play ever again and even if they do, you'll ahve to start another character.. so if you want to find a new mmorpg go to www.youdontknowwhoiam***
theres a huge list of PTP and free mmorpg's... most are better than illarion

DO NOT FOLLOW THE LINK! Vindigan intentionally sent me the link, which goes to a spamming site, which crashes your computer. I consider this a cyber attack on my computer, using the Illarion server.

Vindigan · Post by **Vindigan** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:47 pm

That site does no harm, you can stop the pop-ups. I thought you neaded a little time away from the forums

Anyway, i thought you knew the person who made the site? why would you go on it if you knew what it does?

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:53 pm

I knew not what the URL was. I just knew OF the site. And i tried to stop it, but it wouldn't, and it crashed my computer. What if i was working on something important? I call this a malicious cyber attack!

Vindigan · Post by **Vindigan** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:55 pm

me too! that site must be shut down!
I meen, people all over the world are being FORCED to click that link!

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 10:59 pm

He mislead me to believe it was something it wasn't, and i trusted him with it because i had no reason not to trust him.

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:03 pm

Lets see, he suckered you into clicking a link for a site that does a lot of pop ups and it crashed your computer.

Actually, I think it's pretty funny.

Not that your computer crashed, but that he suckered you into it.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:04 pm

See how funny it is when you click on it. And then go on the Illarion servers and click on it. IT won't be too funny then

Roke · Post by **Roke** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:07 pm

I think Serpardum knows enough about computers not to click on a link just because a stranger told him to. After all, he is the leader of the Server Programmers.

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:12 pm

paul laffing wrote:See how funny it is when you click on it. And then go on the Illarion servers and click on it. IT won't be too funny then

Just for the heck of it, I clicked on the link, it came up, started popping up, then I ctrl-alt-del, brought up the task manager and ended internet explorer about 3 times and it went away.

Then I came back here.

Now I really think it's funny

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:12 pm

I ended three, then more came, then more, until my computer crashed!

Crosis · Post by **Crosis** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 11:26 pm

Paul, your just having a bad day arnt you...

Bumbol Woodstock · Post by **Bumbol Woodstock** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:01 am

paul relax, consider being temp banned as a vacation and get away from your comp.

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 12:06 am

If it weren't for my friends who play the game, i would have taken a "permanent vacation" long ago, but i have too many friends to leave.

Mishrack · Post by **Mishrack** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:33 am

Then again, I must congratulate you on your bravery, Paul.
Considering the url, you have been gullible in the extreme to believe it to be mmrpg listings...

Fooser · Post by **Fooser** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 1:51 am

Since they locked the Banning post before I got to post anything, I have some quick comments before i head out.

First as seen in the logs they have posted in that topic, I extracted some of the quotes made by myself:
#32540 is me

Cosmaterra wrote: Someone (32540): ?
Someone (32540): umm
Someone (32540): whoa

My only comment about this is: Does that sound like a murderer or a confused person in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Cosmaterra wrote: Someone (32540) forms silent words with the lips.
Someone (32540): there paul

I wonder if they looked any further into this. Not only was that a Mes Pen spell, but I was healing Paul after he was attacked AND tried to revive the theif guy unsuccessfully.

Those are my only real comments about that. Im not going to bicker and whine about this, if I'm banned im banned.

Thanks for your time,
Fooser

Sir Gannon · Post by **Sir Gannon** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 4:53 am

Oh man this is TO funny. HAhaha! Just how bad is your computer Paul? Mines a 266 poc AND I CLOSED IT IN 2 TRIES!

HAhahahaha! I have to ask Paul it just freezes you computer doesnt it? Not actually wipes your harddrive. If it just freezes then, Its VERY funny.

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 2:36 pm

Do not open that link!

It seems that the page spreads the JS-Spawn Virus!
My trusted AntiVir went wild, you guys better start scanning your Temporary internet-files immediatly!

Vindigan · Post by **Vindigan** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:08 pm

My norton AV didnt pick anything up, and its up-to-date. Also the computers at my school didnt pick anything up and they have loads of things running to stop these things. Mabey that virus was already in your temp files and your virus scanner scanned them all?

Caranthir the great · Post by **Caranthir the great** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:23 pm

I doubt, since it started to alarm at the moment the page was loaded.
The alarm was also repeating, it was sending me another virus as fast as the pop-ups appeared.

Vindigan · Post by **Vindigan** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:46 pm

Well sorry to anyone who goes on it and gets the virus, I had no idea it did that and it was supposed to be just for fun.

Aragon · Post by **Aragon** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 3:56 pm

@ Paul Laffing

Please use the edit-function to remove the hyperlink from your first post!

Serpardum · Post by **Serpardum** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 10:51 pm

Actually, different virus scanners report java script exploits a little differently.

It is not actualy a virus, but an annoyance, and so your virus scanner was taught to scan for it.

There are certain pop up adds that will fire off my virus scanner, although they are not true viruses, they are trojans.

Gro'bul · Post by **Gro'bul** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 11:24 pm

o darnit no fun for me, the site seems to be down

John Laffing · Post by **John Laffing** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 1:13 am

Yea, the site was down when i tried it, awwwwwwwwww!

Kringin · Post by **Kringin** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:10 am

You people are sad... You actualy followed a like that has that kind of url?

If you didn't know then when you put your mouse over a link the actual link appears beneath the brower beside the loading bar and where it days "done" and such...

Learn more avoid more...

Astral · Post by **Astral** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 2:43 am

I wouldn't count on that, you can make the status bar say whatever you please.

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:07 pm

paul laffing wrote:He mislead me to believe it was something it wasn't, and i trusted him with it because i had no reason not to trust him.

So you learned something: Just because you have "no reason to not trust him", is no reason to trust him. There are about 7 billion people on this earth, that I don't know. So I have no reason not to trust them ....

paul laffing wrote:I consider this a cyber attack on my computer, using the Illarion server.

So where is the part where the illarion server is used in this illegal activity?

paul laffing · Post by **paul laffing** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:02 pm

The website URL is posted on the server, is it not?

Kringin · Post by **Kringin** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 9:29 pm

Hey Astral, you can only block the user from looking at the bottom for the hyperlink but the true link will never change; but you can still right-click and go to the properties.

There's always a way around

Bror · Post by **Bror** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 7:22 pm

paul laffing wrote:The website URL is posted on the server, is it not?

?? Yes it is... In this thread, where a person using your board account posted the link in the first posting. So the person using your board account at that time was doing something illegal, if anyone at all.