This is what happens when somebody messes with SkittleLinux18's computer

[SkittleLinux18]

As some of you already know, I was out of town this weekend and half of last week for USA Thanksgiving Day.

When I came home, I booted up my Linux computer just fine. Then I booted up my Windows/Gaming computer just fine. Well, there was something noticeably wrong with my Win box. I poked around and found out what it was; two things, Ventrillo Server had been installed and was actively hosting, and a command prompt script had been run to retrieve the key code to my LEGALLY OWNED Visual Studio 2008.

Ok, so my two roommates downstairs, who love the PvP MMORPG's, rant and rave about Ventrillo. They tried to get me to install it and I told them I would stick with TeamSpeak since it can run on Linux. (Ventrillo is suppose to be able to, but I tried several times with no luck.) So while I was out of town, these knuckleheads decided to use my computer as a Ventrillo server.

Two months ago, I downloaded Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Visual Studio 2008, SQL 2008, and Expression Studio from Microsoft, with valid key codes, for free because I am a student. (I have the link if anyone is interested) When one of the two knuckleheads (I shall call him John) found out, he kept asking me to give him my key code for VS2008. I was going to do it until my buddy who works for Microsoft told me about their new detection strategies of attaching key codes for their high-valued software to IP addresses and MAC addresses. I told John this last week before I went out of town.

So I come home to a server, command shell scripts to hunt down a key code, and a tinkered-with registry. I made up some lie to him about how my computer crashed and that using the Ultimate Boot CD, I was able to discover that it was due to registry and script issues. The first question he asks me is, "Do you think anyone could have gone in your room and turned your computer on?"



Yeah, guilty!!

I told him no and that I knew my friends too well to ever think they would do that. (Yeah my friends, not my roommates!!) Well, he never fessed up and I am dead certain it was him. I also never confessed that I had the slightest idea that it was anyone in my house. So what did I do? I love Linux! haha

When he went to work 40 minutes ago, I booted his computer with GParted in his cd tray and wiped all of his partitions on both hard drives.

[rokytnji]

Oh, How cruel. LOL. Now you should install Gentoo and let him figure his way around or Damn Small Linux.

[SkittleLinux18]

Oh, How cruel. LOL. Now you should install Gentoo and let him figure his way around or Damn Small Linux.

hahahahahahahahaha...

[bigtomrodney]

Damn. That's nasty. I was about to say that was way too harsh but there's a part of me that's just laughing and mentally high-fiving you

[SkittleLinux18]

Damn. That's nasty. I was about to say that was way too harsh but there's a part of me that's just laughing and mentally high-fiving you

haha thanks!! He has obviously done it before because he knew what he was doing. So it was about time someone taught him a lesson. Plus, if I had done nothing, he would have known that he could get away with it and do something else another time; perhaps something that will actually break my computer next time.

Thanks, again!

[bigtomrodney]

Personally I wouldn't have nuked his partitions, I would have written a script to output a '.' to each of his files. The option is to zero each file so that everything looks okay but doesn't work or to append that onto files to break a lot, but not all of them. Some formats just wouldn't notice.

Man...you've got me thinking like a psycho now! I would never do anything like that in real life.

[SkittleLinux18]

What I did was insanely cruel, that's why I chose to do it! However, he has another computer. So the good news is he can still retrieve the data. It just won't be easy, as you know. I considered a hard drive erase, but I figured that was too cruel. So the data is still there. He's smart enough to know how to retrieve the data from a hard drive that has had the partition removed.

Plus, he left me with no choice. I have no idea what he took off my computer and it's not like he would ever tell me. I had to nuke his partitions for my own sake.

EDIT: Some points I made when chatting on AIM:

SkittleButters
07:59 » exactly
07:59 » expecially after i told him i wouldn't give him the info, he goes and tries to steal it!!
07:59 » i mean, judging by the script, he's done this before
07:59 » his brother used to be part of a crack team
08:00 » he has tons of cracked software and scripts on his computer
08:00 » i don't need someone i can't trust with that kind of crap on his computer living in the same house as me
08:00 » so i nuked it!
08:00 » and now he can spend the next month retreiving it all while i work on better security features for my comps

[SkittleLinux18]

Ok, so John comes home any minute now. I have to admit, I'm a little nervous! haha Although, I suspect most of that is just suspenseful anticipation of basking in the glory of what I did when he starts cussing and throwing furniture through the walls and windows!

Even Dapper Dan is IMing me wanting to be kept informed.

[bigtomrodney]

So if you don't get back to us in the next day or so we should start worrying right?

[SkittleLinux18]

So if you don't get back to us in the next day or so we should start worrying right?

haha yes! Dapper wanted to know if any of us owned an firearms. lol!!

Fortunately the answer is no... at least as far as I know.