Recently, 4chan pwnd Time Magazine’s poll to identify the World’s Most Influential Person. The online community dominated that poll and made the founder of 4chan, moot A.K.A. Christopher Poole the winner. That’s not surprising. 4chan is known for pwning everything it can get its hands on.
But this last week 4chan got a little of it’s own medicine when it’s infamous /b/ board got crippled (that’s Internet slang for “it stopped working right”). For over a week, the 4chan /b/ board was down. The question is why?
Here’s the scoop straight from our anonymous source’s mouth:
Spammers posted pics with a link saying “See nude girls here?” – The link led to a zip file that was an autoexecutable virus. Allegedly the autoexecutable was a virus based on Virtumonde. The altered virus was able to create a MASSIVE botnet capable of DDosing the board. So in essence, the people who brought down /b/ turned out to be /b/ itself. To many people got infected with the virus that is DDosing that board.
Translated:
4chan users got tricked into downloading a virus which turned around and attacked the server that the 4chan /b/ board forum runs on. The way to fix the problem is for 4chan users to clean up and get rid of the virus.
newfags got tricked
only morons would fall for that
Hahaha newfags got owned
newfags chase trap
oldfags sense trap
worthless newfags.
burn it. burn /b/ to the ground. its body is rife with cancer. let it die and rot.
cancer has metastized
Typos make Baby Jesus cry.
/b/
You can never truly be Anonymous if you use windows. When micro-soft owns the software on your computer they know exactly who you are.
The translation was worse than the original description. You suck.
its “too many” not “to many”
/sp/ stands strong. We show up, avoid virus, leave.
rofl, newfags can’t triforce
Where can I download this “virus”? It seems more like a cure for cancer than anything harmful…
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die newfags
long live 7chan
Ecclesiastes 1-:9-10
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
that doesn’t sound right…
4chan sucks, it’s not funny it’s gay
only /b/ can kill /b/.
suʍop ǝpısdn ʎɯ ʇnoq ʍouʞ ʇ,uop sbɐɟʍǝu
newfags ftw
Odd that they would fall for such an obvious ploy.
Your triforce is crooked. I just don’t read whatever 4chan is. I mostly just read reddit, zgeek and books from my library. The rest of the time, I play video games and avoid watching television… oh, and the girl thing is fun too, I guess. But now I must read this 4chan you speak of. You can do anything at zombocom.
the cancer has been cured.
bahaha
i lol’d
It’s interesting that the author of this article chose to use the word “pwned” in what should be an article of serious integrity. When you choose to abuse low-level slang, and then cite another piece of slang erroneously (“crippled”), you lose all credibility.
But thanks for playing.
Not really odd, because of the time magazine thing the board was flooded with newfags that were desperate to “see nude girls” , thus, getting a virus and ruining everything.
Oldfags are smart, newfags are new, new to internet, new to everything also retarded.
lol that whole article is a lie it was actually ddosed by people not the users reporter owned in another trick
/b/ being down is nothing new. This happens every two months or so. It’s not like anon is saying “oh my I see the error of my ways now.” durr.
No way, /b/ found a cure for cancer.
Proof that only /b/ can kill /b/.
newfags can’t triforce
don’t u guys know? 4chan was full of hackers on steroids, no way they were that stupid…
but in all honesty, this article is bullshit. any references? or evidence, for that matter?
m00t knows what happened, he just doesn’t want to talk about it right now
>Odd that they would fall for such an obvious ploy.
That’s because voting moot to the top brought a lot of new users to /b/ – ones who have never been off of Google, AOL, YouTube, Facebook, and Myspace. The definition of cancer. People have been posting those links for ages, but only in recent weeks has it had any effect. So in essence, /b/ killed /b/, but in an extremely indirect manner. However, once /b/’s come back from the dead, only the loyal, intelligent users will return, so the major cancer will have cut itself out.
One word.
Newfags.
Only fucking newfags say newfags. Cunts.
That’s weird..
I don’t think that
a) enough people would be silly enough to run an exe from an ad.
b) even if some did fall for it, it wouldn’t be enough to bring the site down with a DoS attack.
Theres probably more to it.
Sup digg?
Every one of you including the author is a failfag.
You are the cancer that is killing /b/.
Die in a fire.
newfags ugh
Garbage Day !
7chan sucks balls
This is why we can’t have nice things
Ahhhhh, chemo feels great, I think its working guise.
/b/ is an hero
It wasn’t newfags it was all the premi-fags that found 4chan because of the Time poll.
viruses? what it is? use linux desu!
lol. i came buckets!
nao…
Play him off, keyboard cat!!!
I’m sure Time hired someone to do this.
classic
I’m sure they didn’t, tool.
Newfags gets viruses on their lolish windows machines and Oldfags win once more.
Newfags see the cheese but they don’t see the trap.
/b/ deserves what it got… it’s just part of the great purge!
HOW DO I SHOT WEB?
Owned. More should stick away from Windows, too.
moot is a total jew
Stop using “it’s” when you mean “its”. How old are you, 12?
If you are unsure, say “it is” in place of “it’s”. If it doesn’t make sense, use the possessive “its”.
newfags killed /b/… unsuprised anon is unsuprised
flangor!
Proof that only /b/ can kill /b/.
and we shoot web.
This probably wouldn’t have happened if they were running OS X. OH WAIT, 4 channers hate MACS. OH the IRONY!!!!
/b/ Not your personal DDoS Army.
1. Its all the Protest fags fault. It started from there.
2. They Got popular on shittube.
3. Flood of newfags.
4. Newfags vote Moot as time number 1.
5. Time faggots Visit Download Obvious tarp..
6. ??????
7. PROFIT
lol internets
jesus christ which dumb shit downloaded and executable of porn off 4chan? if it was you, shoot yourself
Oldfags please find a way to fix us. The game is getting copypasta.
“newfags got tricked
only morons would fall for that”
Yes, that says it all.
I know as an irrefutable fact that absolutely no one on /b/ except completely fucking retarded people would click anything remotely close to that.
It’s the newfags that have no idea what they’re doing, let alone what a DDoS attack is, that would click that.
This was all of our fault. Fox News and Time Magazine must have worked together to take down our site because one of their employees siezed a thread which threatened to run a DDoS against Fox. Fox came up with a plan to create a surge of “newfags” to the site so that it would be shutdown due to bandwith usage. Obviously their original plan failed, so they formulated a plan to get /b/ to buttfuck itself. /b/ is dead forever, the cancer was there from
the beginning. 4chan is no longer an outlet for another /b/, a so called “promised land” must be built, with things such as passing a quiz about the old /b/ and obscure Internet memes a requirement to enter. There is no such thing as a fully open imageboard! We must forget our boundaries and work together to revive the old /b/. We can’t be held by titles such as “underage”. All smart internet users must band together and work together to show the world the true face and fucking power that is ANONYMOUS. We are legion. We do not forget. And by hell, well never forgive them for what they’ve done!
And in a way, /b/ became it’s own personal army. A personal army that killed itself.
it was boxxy.
is that you Dave?
I am proud to say that I have no clue what a b board is.
wtf? /b/ didn’t “pwn” the Time poll, it just voted en masse. No different to what Colbert and Stewart were doing (albeit less effectively).
newfags can’t:
fire the loic
DDos
triforce
lol
kill chuck norris (wait, no1 can…shhh)
blank post
hack
…
newfags KILL.
so…the solution is simple…
we must kill the Newfags…
which proves again that only b, can kill b.
Newfags can’t triforce
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