I have just been on a web site and I saw a picture I fancied capturing....after I right clicked a dialogue box opened and said 'delete drive C' click OK...:confused:

I closed the box....:suspect:

Could this be a sick joke - or could it have wiped my C drive....if I'd clicked ok:help:

Gosh - you do have to be careful !!
Has anyone else encountered this???

If it had really been nasty it would have gone right ahead no matter where you clicked ;)

Well I closed the box using control + W then deleted all cookies and temp internet files then I ran my AVG virus software then I rebooted and all seemed ok....phew!!

I certainly woke me up though...if my kids had done it I know they would've just clicked 'ok' !


:confused:

I don't back my computer up - I mean how to you get 43GB of info on 700mb discs???

:|

Originally posted by Shiesh
I have just been on a web site and I saw a picture I fancied capturing....after I right clicked a dialogue box opened and said 'delete drive C' click OK...:confused:

I closed the box....:suspect:

Could this be a sick joke - or could it have wiped my C drive....if I'd clicked ok:help:

Gosh - you do have to be careful !!
Has anyone else encountered this??? It's more likely to be a custom right clic script.

everytime you right clic a box with the message the web site creator appears..

I have that on mine, but it don't say 'Delete C drive' it says 'no right clic, copyright blah blah' and is the most anoying thing I've managed to find to add on my site :D :D

Originally posted by Shiesh
I have just been on a web site and I saw a picture I fancied capturing....after I right clicked a dialogue box opened and said 'delete drive C' click OK...:confused:

I closed the box....:suspect:

Could this be a sick joke - or could it have wiped my C drive....if I'd clicked ok:help:

Gosh - you do have to be careful !!
Has anyone else encountered this??? What site is this Shiesh so we can all avoid it. :D i bet someone looks thou.

:hihi: it was a joke/fun website so you probably right.....the web creator needs his backside slapping...it really freaked me!!

:mad:

if anyone fancies trying it the website is......no I wouldn't...:heyhey:

I think it's rather cute - after all, you were trying to steal someone's copyrighted material!

:)

Originally posted by JoePritchard
I think it's rather cute - after all, you were trying to steal someone's copyrighted material!

:)

:hihi: :hihi: :hihi: :hihi:

Originally posted by Shiesh


I don't back my computer up - I mean how to you get 43GB of info on 700mb discs???

:|

Treat yourself to a second hard drive. About £50 for 120Gb.

It'd be a fake, windows cannot format c when in operation, so you'd have got an error and it would have stopped there.

If it was a delete *.* and not format c, then that could be different. However highly unlikely to be possible.

95% its a hoax.

I'll try it if you wanna send me the link!
Just to see what happens like.

Get someone to try it using a Mac!

Originally posted by Captain_Scarlet
It's more likely to be a custom right clic script.

everytime you right clic a box with the message the web site creator appears..

I have that on mine, but it don't say 'Delete C drive' it says 'no right clic, copyright blah blah' and is the most anoying thing I've managed to find to add on my site :D :D

But they're oh so easy to get around. I haven't found one site yet that has the js to pop up an error message, that pops it up on FireFox without actually allowing you to then choose 'save image as'.

Even in IE you just hold the left button down and right click and the box disappears... :-"

I find that 'Alt' + 'Prt Sc' usually does the trick. Okay, so you need to crop the rubbish off the sides, but it works without too much trouble

There's a lovely screensaver that can be installed on a "friends"* pc so that it looks like their PC is going through a reformat in DOS mode... Think it's on systeminternals.com or some such..

... but I digress... such a pop up shouldn't be able to reformat your hard drive BUT I wouldn't put it past the point where someone could code something for an exploit that would schedule something like that. Nothing like that exists at the moment though and it's not exactly productive... Stealing your ID, cc numbers, etc.. is a much better use of such crackers skills... :suspect:

Overall, best to ask.. :)

Originally posted by Martin_s
There's a lovely screensaver that can be installed on a "friends"* pc so that it looks like their PC is going through a reformat in DOS mode... Think it's on systeminternals.com or some such..



There's also a lovely BSOD screensaver too - :D

:)

P.S: In a rather productive lesson, some of us managed to wind a teacher up, by doing a screenshot of the desktop, having the start bar hidden and had the screenshot as the desktop - we had her stumped for ages; so much so, she had to ring the techie who saw through it as soon as he walked in. :hihi:

Originally posted by ANGELUS
I'll try it if you wanna send me the link!
Just to see what happens like.

I have PM'd you the web address Angelus..:hihi:

Originally posted by cgksheff
Treat yourself to a second hard drive. About £50 for 120Gb.

Thanks for the advice cgksheff...may need to look into that further...

:thumbsup:

Scirptrap is a useful little freeware utility that has saved my bacon a couple of times...

http://www.keir.net/scriptrap.html

Hi!

Just to confirm I've tried the site link that Shiesh has sent me.

Totally fine and it wont wipe your HD!
The message comes up in Internet Explorer but does not appear in Mozilla Firefox.

Its safe people-- enjoy!

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Hi!

Just to confirm I've tried the site link that Shiesh has sent me.

Totally fine and it wont wipe your HD!
The message comes up in Internet Explorer but does not appear in Mozilla Firefox.

Its safe people-- enjoy!

:thumbsup:

Well done ANGELUS!! :clap:

Still... I am not gonna visit that site anymore on principle...that was a cruel prank by the web creator!! :(

this has happened to me as well before

i closed it down and left the computer off for three days!!!

Originally posted by biggan
this has happened to me as well before

i closed it down and left the computer off for three days!!!

lol ive had close calls with dodgy, strange happenings BUT never got THAT paranoid :)