i remember we actually caught a request to one of our games' servers trying to get it to run a variation of this string and recruit the instance to a bot farm zombie coordinated by some IP in russia
there was a wget request as part of the malicious script it wanted to run, and it downloaded a script file that the malicious code was supposed to then run with admin privileges, and i remember it being like, some of the worst code we had ever seen, and riddled with bugs, it would've been a miracle if it even worked, though we didn't try it of course
Mmmmm. I was under the impression that modern Linux limits the amounts of processes that a user can spawn by default, meaning this fork bomb doesn't really work anymore. Though, it probably varies from distro to distro. That's why I included the warning. But yeah, it doesn't do any long lasting damage.
