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cdcartertoday at 5:41 PM1 replyview on HN

If it weren't for the 11k process fork bomb, I wonder how much longer it would have taken for folks to notice and cut this off.


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intothemildtoday at 5:43 PM

Thats the thing, i noticed it almost instantly when trying to install a package that depended on it, as soon as it started, it hard locked my laptop, didn't get to infect it.. but if they had slowed down that fork bomb.. it would have done more damage.

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