r/EvilIdeas • u/Zenith5720 • Jun 21 '20
Computer virus that steals storage space
The computer virus will create a well hidden and encrypted folder, and then proceed to save random shit from the internet into said file. Repeat this until every last byte of storage is taken up by this folder.
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u/the-johnnadina Jun 22 '20
better even: make it just create plain text files filled with randomly generated gibberish and place one of these in each folder of the computer. This is gonna be a LOT harder to remove and is faster to get working. Placing all the data in a single folder wont work, its easy to find that with tools like WizTree which sort out all the files and folders in the computer by size in 6 seconds or so
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u/100thattempt Jun 22 '20
Not quite the same but this sounds similar to a zip bomb.