Forkies

A "Forkie" is a nickname typically given to someone who maliciously causes destruction or otherwise renders the virtual machines unusable to annoy, intimidate and/or troll users of CollabVM.

Although their name derives from the term "fork bomb", they do not exclusively run fork bombs. A forkie may also run an executable which prevents anything from opening, deleting the registry, or other methods of blocking usability on the VM. Anti-forkies also have the same purpose, except the premise is to stop forkies from forking the VM, despite the fact that it, in and of itself, is a forkie.

Not too long ago, a vote to reset button was added to combat forkies along with a customized task manager (and later a customized command prompt), which is mostly actually successful at defeating nearly every forkie, although a forkie will eventually figure out how to bypass it and break the VM again immediately afterwards.

Forkies were not only present on CollabVM - they were also known to be present on the similar (but now defunct) website known as socket.computer, wecan.hasthe.technology, the Virus Farm and the like.

According to old documentation and (then) recent history, forkies have appeared to be successful business entreprenurs and have managed to assemble their very own restaurant! Dubbed Forkies Real Food Parlor and located in Lynnwood, Pretoria (?) South Africa, they have managed to score many customers and serve great Italian food! (Not rat poison surprisingly)

The restaurant has been since closed at one point in April(?) 2018.

Is being a "Forkie" a bannable offense?

Many users have questioned if being a Forkie is a bannable offense.

The short answer is: If the moderation team is online, sometimes but mostly no.

The long answer is that, if you have a very long streak of making the VM unusable, you might be banned. Or if you break a global site rule. For instance, creating an executable which DDoSed someone (assuming someone would have already knew about your intentions and reported it to the administration, or the administration is on the VM and has formally recognized it as a DDOSing attempt), you would likely be banned permanently.

Nowadays, there is now a rule in place on the site, dubbed Rule 9 of the CollabVM website, in which if you constantly make the VM unusable (t. textbook definition of Forkies), or run a certain banned script, or attempt to overwrite the VM's operating system with one another (t. Installfagging), it is constituted a rule violation.

While uncommon, constantly breaking the VM can also result in a ban, if a majority of members vote to have you banned from the VMs. This usually only happens however if you excessively abuse the VMs. You won't be banned for simply running malware or fork bombs or whatever once on the VMs, though others will find it very annoying.

FTP Forkies

FTP Forkies are forkies who destroy the (no longer existing) CollabVM FTP. Therefore this information is now irrelevant and is now only presented for historical purposes.

Indexfag

The Indexfag is a type of FTP forkie which adds an index.html into any folder of the FTP, which causes the page to be overwritten with the corresponding index page, forcing users to either have the file removed or use an external FTP client. As files cannot be deleted by regular users due to abuse, an admin must delete the file.

As of October 17th 2018, this forkie is fixed; users can still upload an index.html but users must click the file to load it.

Spacefiller

The Spacefiller is a type of FTP forkie which adds junk files to the FTP, causing disk space to be wasted or the FTP root to load indefinitely, causing a denial of service attack. These types of attacks are usually quickly cleaned and result in a ban.

It is pointless to fill the FTP as it takes forever and the FTP is large enough (4 terabytes, 2 terabytes for the 2 FTPs) and won't run out of disk space that easily.

Filebomber

The Filebomber is a type of FTP forkie which goes around looking for directories and then uploads file(s) intended to embarrass the corresponding folder's owner.

Such files (but not limited to) include: 'sethrogan.png' and '!!!!! !! ! !!!!!Anne Puts Her Foot Down!.mp4'.

Reversefag

The Reversefag is a type of FTP forkie which attempts to hack into the FTP server by uploading a PHP that loads in a reverse shell.

However, this fails miserably because the FTP server has PHP disabled for the FTP directory.

Gallery

Forkie
Forkie icon (it's actually a restaurant logo)
VM destroyed by a forkie
A fork. That's all what it is
Fork but flipped
Gold fork
Forkie Restaurant
Forkie Restaurant Logo