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If he gives you a script or anything do not run them do not trust him also do not give him any passwords or usernames for any accounts (wether it be runescape or something else) because he wanted me to test this "Python server" for him and he lied to me. So I ran the python server after it "initialised" my screen flashed white and I lost icons on my desktop I quickly restarted my computer and got grub error 15 (THANKS A LOT ASSHOLE) i booted off the CD and i browsed into my /home/mark to find no files there. I lost all my homework that is due tommorow that I spent all night on. DOUCHEBAG. I sent him an angry forum PM too.

DO NOT TRUST HIM!!! If he ever tells you to run a script of his tell him to GTFO and ignore him/block him because this isn't the first time I have heard of him doing something malicious. (There was another incident where Harry gave him a MYSQL username and password and he put a forkbomb on it)

Also, do not reply to this post if you are going to say something stupid like "You shouldn't of run the script, noob". I will just hate you if you do.

I will be on tomorow I have A LOT of homework to do. Bye.

Also, he pastebinned me the script. I will try my best to recover it (I will try to access my router/modem and view my history) to show someone here who can tell me what it does

Report to admin.

maybe his script malfunctioned? it was a test after all right? Not defending him really, just listing possibilities….don't even know it's possible? lol could be, but I doubt it.

I called my dad, he is in a meeting when he gets out he will help me look through my history using our switch/router/modem whatever. I am going to find that script and I will show my dad as well. He knows a lot of programming languages

good luck getting info back if possible, and good luck recovering the script. It'd be nice to see what exactly it did…

From: Brain
maybe his script malfunctioned? it was a test after all right? Not defending him really, just listing possibilities….don't even know it's possible? lol could be, but I doubt it.

I Seriously doubt that a malfunction will remove all my files and remove my GRUB loader so that I cannot boot from my disk. It would of removed much more but I restartd my computer but I was unable to recover anything (from my harddrive at least, still working on getting that script when I finish my homework).

That sucks man. Don't do anything on that hard drive, you should be able to run some recovery program if you attach it as an external drive to another computer and get your shit back.

From: cycrosism
I Seriously doubt that a malfunction will remove all my files and remove my GRUB loader so that I cannot boot from my disk. It would of removed much more but I restartd my computer but I was unable to recover anything (from my harddrive at least, still working on getting that script when I finish my homework).

I doubt it too, but it's semi possible, if the stars align, on a Tuesday, in June, on a leap year, with a full moon….during a Saturn eclipse…maybe?

From: The Claw
That sucks man. Don't do anything on that hard drive, you should be able to run some recovery program if you attach it as an external drive to another computer and get your shit back.

There was no way to recover any of it. I booted of the ubuntu CD and over half (MAYBE EVEN MORE) of my files were gone. Even files in the system folder and in other critical folders were missing. I already installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu on that drive.

I'm wondering why you had homework, but maybe you have school when I have summer.

Try to be more careful when running things your unsure of, and I hope you can get all your stuff back.

Ha you got owned, Don't trust your face… how does it feels like, making jokes when you're pissed off…

Anyways i don't care tbh, and i don't even know Bong or bobng or whatever :p.

the files aren't "gone" most likely registered as deleted, not written over, yet. Computers just ignore deleted files until you write over them. and there are programs that can recover deleted files. That is what the claw meant.

It is summer in America but winter in australia. When it is summer here it will be winter there

Oh, I tried to do "SHOW HIDDEN FILES", no result.

they are more hidden than that, you need a special program designed for recovering deleted files.

To late to recover my homework, best option I have now is to redo it. There is still a chance i can recover the script

Ignorance is not an excuse - you knew Bobng had a malicious past and you blindly ran what you did not know. It doesn't make what Bobng did right, but it does make it pretty funny for me.

Oh, also I'm fairly sure Python would only be able to delete root files if you ran it as sudo, which is never a clever thing to do. I may be wrong, but I believe this is accurate.

I only found out about his past when I did a search for "Bobng" on the forums (and that was just when I logged in about an hour ago)

What Brain said. Assuming that you reformatted the drive the ubuntu would be installed over the old ubuntu files (most likely), so most of your old files should still be there. When something gets deleted, it doesn't actually get physically removed from your hard drive, the code is still there - its just the sector gets different attributes, so your computer ignores it and writes over it when theres new stuff to do. tl;dr you should be able to get nearly all of your files back still.

Just found out I am unable to recover the script too.

damn :S sorry man. but yeah try one of those delited file programs. it worked alittle for me.. if you just dont touch anythinig or let the computer over write your files it should be able to find them

Are you even listening to Claw?!

Yes, I already told him I installed Ubuntu over it. I am rewriting my homework as we speak.

edit - check the last line in post 11

read post 21, ALL of it, you can still get lots of files back even though you reinstalled ubuntu! but w/e, you're worked up, and have you mind set on already having lost everything, calm down, and read what he actually wrote.

Obvious ignorance is obvious -_-.

So what if you reinstalled it? You can still retrieve the files back (most likely).

From: cycrosism
Yes, I already told him I installed Ubuntu over it. I am rewriting my homework as we speak.

edit - check the last line in post 11

Oh dear. This is the last time I will say this, you can ignore it again if you want, but….YOU CAN GET MOST OF YOUR FILES BACK.

Okay, would you kindly tell me how I could get most the files back? I'll hop on the IRC

You have those kind of people xD.

Just google for it then download a trial from *cough* torrentz *cough* .

As many people have said before, you can still recover the stuff that hasn't been written over yet, as when you delete something it's just marked as "unused" or something in the harddrive, and will exist there until it's written over.

E: Wat, i pressed tab+something and this got auto-posted.. >_> .. Oh yeah, and that's pretty much the reason you should always make sure if you're throwing away a harddrive that you drill a hole or just break it some other way, because even if you reformat it's very possible for someone who happens to get a hold on that harddrive to recover the files and you might not want that :p

It does not matter anymore. I already redid the work.

edit - instead of drilling a hole in it you could just shred the drive so people cant recover it

There is programs to actually delete from memory though, in case you know feds are on you over nothing.

Killdisk for example.

From: ZaSz
There is programs to actually delete from memory though, in case you know feds are on you over nothing.

I don't think it's deleted only re-writed.
You can literally kill memory by re-writing it 50 times over.

Lol, and people think I'm paranoia for never opening executable files that people send me

lol, im so sorry, makes me think of the day i wiped my computer > 4 times. hmm, maybe i cuda recovered them…..well GL' inda search 4 the python thing

From: Freddy1990
Lol, and people think I'm paranoia for never opening executable files that people send me

Bah, big difference between closed sauce executables and a readable python script :)

From: mixster
Bah, big difference between closed sauce executables and a readable python script :)

Hmm, if you can see the source and still end up being fucked, you're just stupid, lol, I read every bit of code people send me before executing it… And if I cbf, then I sandbox it :)
Chuck Norris would never get owned like that :norris:

Thanks for calling me stupid Freddy, much appreciated.

Cycrosism, look at something called Sandboxie :p.

Well, it was kind of a boneheaded thing to do.

From: Da 0wner
Cycrosism, look at something called Sandboxie :p.

because when you totally mess up your computer, you have something to keep you occupied:


Sand boxes are so fun :)

Bobng is banned now btw

From: The Claw
Bobng is banned now btw

Permanently?

Yeah forever. Only just realized.

Anyway, on the subject of the script, here is where you went wrong:

1. You ran it as sudo - Why?
2. When you asked what it was I said it was a "server thingy for IRC". Thats a dumb answer. Why continue?
3. The script had an error in it. It spewed out a traceback (A list of the last lines run in a script) which was FULL of the word "rm" (remove)
Infact this was the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "server.py", line 4, in <module>
    shutil.rmtree('/')
  File "/localhome/raghu/localwork/cpython/python/Lib/shutil.py", line
194, in rmtree
    onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
  File "/localhome/raghu/localwork/cpython/python/Lib/shutil.py", line
192, in rmtree
    os.rmdir(path)
OSError: [Errno 1] Cannot remove file /dev/something'

Why did you send me the error message and wait for me to fix it?

From: Da 0wner
Cycrosism, look at something called Sandboxie :p.

for linux? as that is what his box was

From: Elob
Yeah forever. Only just realized.

Anyway, on the subject of the script, here is where you went wrong:

1. You ran it as sudo - Why?
2. When you asked what it was I said it was a "server thingy for IRC". Thats a dumb answer. Why continue?
3. The script had an error in it. It spewed out a traceback (A list of the last lines run in a script) which was FULL of the word "rm" (remove)
Infact this was the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "server.py", line 4, in <module>
    shutil.rmtree('/')
  File "/localhome/raghu/localwork/cpython/python/Lib/shutil.py", line
194, in rmtree
    onerror(os.rmdir, path, sys.exc_info())
  File "/localhome/raghu/localwork/cpython/python/Lib/shutil.py", line
192, in rmtree
    os.rmdir(path)
OSError: [Errno 1] Cannot remove file /dev/something'

Why did you send me the error message and wait for me to fix it?

Hey Bobng was wondering when you'd be back. It doesn't matter that cycrosism is a noob and ran your script, he decided to trust you and you abused that trust.

From: Brain
because when you totally mess up your computer, you have something to keep you occupied:


Sand boxes are so fun :)

AMG I have the sand box on my deck. No lie.

Use foremost.

A reason for me to never open .exe's that come without source.

Bobng is banned now, isn't he?

if so then there is no point for keeping this thread alive, Close pl0x :).

From: Tickyy
Bobng is banned now, isn't he?

if so then there is no point for keeping this thread alive, Close pl0x :).

Nah.

From: Wizzup?
A reason for me to never open .exe's that come without source.

You still shouldn't trust that exe. For all you know I could have put evil code in the exe that I didn't reflect in the source code. Anyways, just like what other people have said in this thread, cycrosism should have looked at the source first and made sure he understood it, however Bobng should not have done this. He somewhat did that same to me, I wasn't running sudo but meh. Essentially I had a python IRC bot that did evals, and he did an rmtree through shutil. The only thing that I lost, however, was that IRC bot.