Ability to wipe off an entire compute with a BYOND Game?

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Jan 19 2012, 5:26 pm (Edited on Jan 19 2012, 5:32 pm)
Apparently somebody said if I host banned them then my entire hard drive will be erased because host bans trigger a file deletion. From what I remember. . The game folder can not be left. And even if it could, I doubt they'd know my exact folders.

Would this be true? Is it possible to exit the game folder through codes? I need some feedback from the BYOND community and developers and admins etc.
#1 Jan 19 2012, 5:31 pm
Sounds pretty damn absurd to me.
#2 Jan 19 2012, 5:34 pm
That's what I am saying. I have tried having codes that would delete an entire folder and any backups a person has incase of somebody trying to rip. But they all failed because I could never get the game to specifically go outside of the folder without specifying their actually name. I can understand if he uses ../ and goes all the way to C:/ but what if C:/ is actually D:/? You can't tell for sure. Then you'd have to find the Windows Main folder and etc.
#3 Jan 19 2012, 6:23 pm
In response to Xirre (#2)
Recalling an old ban someone had for revealing a method to do something similar, I'm pretty sure you can wipe a hard-drive clean.
#4 Jan 19 2012, 7:05 pm
In response to Moonlight Memento (#3)
Moonlight Memento wrote:
Recalling an old ban someone had for revealing a method to do something similar, I'm pretty sure you can wipe a hard-drive clean.

At least with older versions all you needed was fdel() and trusted mode.
#5 Jan 19 2012, 7:09 pm
In response to Moonlight Memento (#3)
Moonlight Memento wrote:
Recalling an old ban someone had for revealing a method to do something similar, I'm pretty sure you can wipe a hard-drive clean.

I hardly doubt it.

But doing fdel in code can easily.

Works on Trusted obviously without prompts.

But with safe the host is given a prompt, if the host doesn't read it and press yes to the execution then it is the hosts own fault.

mob
    verb
        test()
            //shell("del C:/testfolder/12.txt")
            fdel("C:/testfolder/12.txt")
#6 Jan 20 2012, 2:32 pm
It requires either the user to allow the command to go through, or for the program to be in trusted mode, but it is possible I believe.
#7 Jan 20 2012, 7:34 pm
In response to Popisfizzy (#6)
Well apparently now he, the guy who said they could wipe off my hard drive, decided to "threaten" to DDoS my server(s). Lol. Just lovely. I don't want to retaliate illegally but if nothing can be done legally. . I will have to in order to protect my servers.
#8 Jan 21 2012, 12:11 am
In response to Xirre (#7)
If someone is using a DDoS as a threat/scare, they're either not going to do it or be so stupid they aren't going to use a proxy.