Hacknet

Hacknet

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What to do when Naix is hacking you.
By ♡ Pustalorc ♡
Guide will show you available options of what you can do to defend from naix or how to restore the hacknet os functionality after your x-server.sys is deleted.
   
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Defend From The Attack.
Once Naix sends you the mail, you'll have to connect back to your main computer and run "shell". After it shows up on the ram, click "trap" and wait for Naix to connect to your pc.
When he connects you'll get the warning of an unidentified computer connecting from port 22, when this shows up move to your logs folder and wait for his second proxy server to show up, then wait for him to open one port, and once he is done it, click "Trigger" to launch a ForkBomb attack on the connections on your computer. It should take about 10-20 seconds untill his attack ends. However, if this does not happen, try clicking "Trap" and then "Trigger" a few times untill 1 of 2 things happen:
  • On the Logs it says he disconnected.
  • Your HUD Reboots.

After this, you can choose to do 2 things:

  • Wait a few seconds (for his proxy to reboot) and then set up a connection to it and hack through up to his computer. (then delete a file in that computer [he will message you, then you can follow the story on from there])
  • Reply to the "Punishment Must Be Given" automated Contract.
Restore System Functionality After Failing To Defend.
When you fail to defend, a ForkBomb attack will be launched on your computer, filling up all ram and crashing the computer. This will cause the computer to reboot (even tho it reboots 2 times it should reboot once). Waiting some seconds for the reboot(s) to finnish, you should be on the console, from this point on, there can be 2 possible outcomes.

You have a x-server backup file

If you had a copied x-server file from before the hack, the only thing you have to use is use the command "mv [FILE_NAME] x-server.sys" and then "reboot -i" and everything should run fine but with a different background.

You don't have a x-server backup file

However, if you didn't have a copied x-server file before Naix hacked you, what you have to do is run "scan" to find the computer that is linked to yours, "connect [IP]" to it and then go to the system directory using "cd sys" (if it says access denied, insuficient permissions, then run "PortHack" to get access to the computer), and then copy the server file out using "scp x-server.sys". Then disconnect using "dc" or "disconnect" and then reboot your system ("reboot -i") (I must also say, the background you get from this server is nice.)


Once the reboot is over, you should be good to go and with the HUD working again, from here then you can choose to reply to the "Agression must be punished" contract or you can decide to take revenge on Naix by simply connecting to the proxy that he used to hack you.
57 Comments
FUBAR MC7203 13 Nov, 2023 @ 12:29pm 
If I can remember how to as I see a few comments about the scp x-server.sys not being available.

from your terminal we start and go like this:

scan enter
connect (type out the IP address) enter
nmap enter
porthack enter
ls enter
cd sys enter
scp x-server.sys enter
dc enter
and finally, reboot and hit enter.

:) Retribution time.
badfluffy 17 Jun, 2021 @ 10:40am 
Hm... I was running the shell to trap intruders just in case so I used that when he started breaking in. He never replied to me after that second email though. I read that this could lead to the story branching but I was invited to the CSEC the regular way even though I never replied to the mission email either.
Hess 11 Dec, 2020 @ 9:05pm 
Hey, I know this is old but, I can't find any "trigger" when I use the trap. It just doesn't exist.
stupidity503 5 Feb, 2020 @ 12:51am 
omg it worked thnx
FiSH-ASS 29 Jan, 2019 @ 4:27pm 
why doesnt x-server.sys exist
flyingturret208 17 Oct, 2018 @ 1:43pm 
one thing you can do is get different backgrounds by breaching other systems and copying their file over, remember to rename the file using mv x-server.sys x-server.sys
Cookie Monster 17 Aug, 2018 @ 12:55pm 
I still can't sign in...
metro119 19 Jul, 2018 @ 6:41am 
x-server.sys doesnt exist in phoneix solutions
xpk20040228 16 Jul, 2018 @ 2:24am 
use [scan] command and it will show
Monochromation 15 Jul, 2018 @ 11:03pm 
also whats the ip or how do i find it