Hackers and Zombie Comm units, It's been done before Options

[Siege]

Zombie PCs

Just food for thought.

-Siege

[Bandwidthoracle]

Anyone have any fun vireses, sites, groups, or programs for SR4?

[Rotbart van Dain...]

The 'Machine Liberation Army', hacking Devices at random and replacing any System with a stubborn Pilot?

[hobgoblin]

a agent thats equiped so that it clones itself and takes over comlinks?

[Bandwidthoracle]

Hey Chummers, I thought this might interest you all.

Renkru Grid Security Alert for January 2070
Infection Rate: Moderate/Threat: Moderate.
GridDoor.A is an augmented reality virus that spreads through appending itself to commlink to commlink transfers. Upon infection a backdoor is installed, and the commlink is linked to a network of zombie machines. These networks are usually used for malicious intent, such as launching distributed denial of service attacks against servers.

Renkru software engineers have determined that symptoms of this virus include unexplaned opperating system slowdowns, or incorrect system subscrpition and/or active subscription lists.

To remove GridDoor.A and other malicious code from your commlink Renkru CommGaurd 2070 is a reccomended solution.

OOC:
Infection

[ Spoiler ]

The GridDoor.A virus can infect a system during a file transfer, especially if file source is seedy.
The virus makes a makes rolls (rating x 2) dice against the system + firewall of the system, if this fails the virus fails to infect the system.

To detect an incoming infection make a Computer + Analyze [Rating] test.
An infected system has 1D6/3 (Round up) fewer slots in their active subscriber list than they should, and has a 1/6 chance of running one extra process (for the purpose of determining if response is lowered).

To remove the virus from an infected computer roll Software + Antivirus extended test [(Rating x 2)].
The network traffic can be tracked back to the zombie commander as standard.
To code this virus, making a softwaer + computer test as if you where writing an IC with the same rating.

I hope this doesn't suck.

This post has been edited by Bandwidthoracle: Oct 11 2005, 05:33 AM

[NightRain]

No, it doesn't suck, in fact, it does quite the opposite. Very nice idea/implementation

[Bandwidthoracle]

Thanks NightRain, I've always kinda wished there was more stuff for the Matrix.
I realise I didn't include a coding time, I suggest putting it in the Agent/IC code time?

[Bandwidthoracle]

Is this at all hepfull? Should I do more? I have a bunch more rolling around in my head.

[Vector]

Keep 'em coming. :)