What happened is a really long story, but if you must know the whole story:
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Here's the story in a nutshell:
I ask for a relatively simple program to be made that produces all possible combinations with given values. People post their source code and talk about how simple it is. A member by the name of faptop posted a program which he claimed would do what I asked. People download this program, it doesn't work. Everyone calls him a tard. He then tells us what it really does, it searches for all the bmp's and .jpg's on your hard-drive, then over-writes them with tubgirl. People are royally pissed off, but he claims there is a fix. The fix is just the first program renamed. People who unknowingly ran the program waiting for it to load (he claimed his shoddy coding might take a while) have had their whole photo albums ruined and un-recoverable. Because the program didn't just rename or delete the files, it over-wrote them, there is really no way to recover them. Unless you want to shell out $500+ to recover partial pieces of the original images.
Because of the horrible leadership shown at the forum, the guy is not banned and it will cost $250 to get him perma banned. What he did was spread malicious code around the internet, claimed a fix, which inevitably was the same program renamed. Is there any legal action the victims can take against him?
I'm asking here because at least ATOT can be mature at times
-- mrcodedude
Thread #1 | Thread #2
Here's the story in a nutshell:
I ask for a relatively simple program to be made that produces all possible combinations with given values. People post their source code and talk about how simple it is. A member by the name of faptop posted a program which he claimed would do what I asked. People download this program, it doesn't work. Everyone calls him a tard. He then tells us what it really does, it searches for all the bmp's and .jpg's on your hard-drive, then over-writes them with tubgirl. People are royally pissed off, but he claims there is a fix. The fix is just the first program renamed. People who unknowingly ran the program waiting for it to load (he claimed his shoddy coding might take a while) have had their whole photo albums ruined and un-recoverable. Because the program didn't just rename or delete the files, it over-wrote them, there is really no way to recover them. Unless you want to shell out $500+ to recover partial pieces of the original images.
Because of the horrible leadership shown at the forum, the guy is not banned and it will cost $250 to get him perma banned. What he did was spread malicious code around the internet, claimed a fix, which inevitably was the same program renamed. Is there any legal action the victims can take against him?
I'm asking here because at least ATOT can be mature at times
-- mrcodedude
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