CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search "Rabbit virus" redirects here. For the disease used in an attempt to exterminate rabbits in Australia, see Myxomatosis . "Wabbit" redirects here. For the fictional character known as a "wabbit", see Bugs Bunny . For the animal, see rabbit . The concept behind a fork bomb — the processes continually replicate themselves, potentially causing a denial of service In computing , a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus or wabbit [ 1 ] ) is a denial-of-service attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available system resources, causing resource starvation and slowing or crashing the system. 1 History 2 Implementation 3 Examples of fork bombs 4 Defusing 5 Prevention 6 See also 7 References History [ edit ] Around 1978 an early variant of a fork bomb ca...