Ultimate Guide to Hosting a LAN Party

WebWord writes "The title says it all. This really is the best damn guide to setting up a LAN party I have ever seen. They cover all the details from equipment to food to network protocols. Excellent!"

Projector fun...

A mate and I set up a Quake2 party complete with a digital projector set up on a seperate machine on the network using the "camera where the action is" mode and..... no bloody one came. Everyone wanted to go see anyother stupid hollywood flick. :(

Bbbu-bbut

What makes lan parties fun is cramming yourself on the edge of a bed, where your mouse works crappy, getting fragged while the host(ess) kicks your ass while sitting at their desk - that and brownouts when the sub woofers woof (for the lack of a better word).
I see doom on the page - how long has it been since you've last played that game.
Honestly though, planning helps, but the article isn't that extensive.

Pansies!

Remember to allocate space for sleeping if your event spans more than one day because even the most hardcore gamer cannot play for 24 hours straight.

Poofters! Wimps! It doesn't get fun until after you've been up for 24 hours straight. Then you turn the volume wayyyy up, and shotgun about 4 cans of Jolt... Blammo! Good God, I'm hit! The monsters, they're all around meeee

I disagree on mice

They say to use optical mice. I have never really liked the feel of optical mice personally and aren't there tracking problems on most of them at high velocities. Ball mice just have that more definite feel to them. They point better and track more accurately. Just get a good mousepad and keep it clean. Optical mice are kind of cool, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done to make them usable for hardcore gaming.

Re:I disagree on mice

I just recently got into using optical mice, and I love them-- for some reason (maybe it's my own fault) dust and whatnot screws up old-style ball mice for me faster than anything (sometimes to the point where left/right motion won't function).. with this optical mouse though, there's just about nothing that can cause me to have that same experience. As for your concerns about "pointing better and tracking more accurately", I believe they are unfounded. Microsoft's IntelliMouse Optical, IntelliMouse Explorer and Wheel Mouse Optical all take snapshots 6000 times a second-- that's more sampling than your typical ball mouse receives. (Granted, it likely never sends all that data down the wire, but it does likely process this data in the mouse to create a more accurate representation of your movements.)

I dunno, maybe it's different mice for different folks, but you should give them another chance. =)

Deterioration

Our LAN Parties always end up deteriorating into long ass game of Worms.

Interesting LAN guide

This could certainly help out those who have never done a LAN party before, or even those who want a quick list of sorts of things to remember to do. Seems fairly well thought out, especially the out of game information, such as feeding your guests.

Why bother - go to a net café instead

It seems like that article leaped out of stasis from five years back.

Nowadays, with a net/LAN gaming café on every corner it is much easier just going there instead - the iron is faster, the network is already set up, everyone has a decent chair, and they have more games than I care to count. At 2-3 an hour for the cafés, spending hours getting things set up for a private party really does not make sense to me.

Don't plan TO much

This only applies to smaller at-home LAN parties, as I have never been involved in organizing a large 20+ persons LAN party.
Anyway, my experience is that you shouldn't overplan what activities/games should take place/be played when you are throwing a LAN party.
Mostly, just going with the flow is a really good idea, as pressuring people into playing a game they might or might not want to play, most often leads to a lot of bitching, and generally unsatisfied players.

Another thing you should consider (when hosting at home), is to offer other activities than LAN gaming.
Ofcourse, if you only have a weekend, then this mig ht not be all that important, but when we do LAN'ing, most of the participants take a week of from work, and then we do a 10-day stretch, and THEN its important to offer other activities, such as DVD movies (if you can get a projector, its a BIG thumbs up, ditto for a decent 5.1 surround system), if its summer, setup a barbeque, take an afternoon on the beach, etc.
I've found that this is a really great idea, which makes participants happy, and gives a generally much better ambiance at the LAN party.

This guy is too difficult!

The guy mentions getting a 24 port 10/100 switch. Is this guy made out of money? I've been to god knows how many lan parties, and there are some pretty pathetic gaming rigs people have scraped up the little money they have to build a box with. How does he expect someone to just pull a damn switch out of their a$$? and DHCP? Why? If you use windows and tell it to automatically select an IP address (w/o a DHCP server present) it will automatically choose a random IP address out of the 169.254.0.0/16 range. a DHCP server is a lot of hassle for less than 20 people. This guy goes way too much into depth on holding lan parties. See, if this is how it is going to be in the future, I guess i'm going to be the old fart reminiscing on how "lan parties used to be simple, back when we just brought computers over to our friends house with an 8 port hub and played quake, no planning, no charging, no designated break areas, no sponsorships...".

We have lan parties typically every weekend. They consist of 10-20 people at any given time. It is extremely simple... some of us in our group work for the city and have access to one of their buildings (hookups are great). We hold our lan parties in a big room, have tables & chairs there for our use. We pitched in $5 each (one time fee) and bought a 24 port 10/100 hub. There are no designated break areas. People go on their own food runs if they're hungry, and we don't charge or have sponsors. Just a bunch of guys (and one girl) who get together and play counterstrike for hours up on hours upon hours.....Dick

Re:This guy is too difficult!

Um, no. DHCP isnt hard to setup, and any linux geek could download dhcpd and the sample config works fine. And @home/dsl(some) peeps seem to use dhcp anyways, all lan parties I goto use DHCP so nobody has to give out settings. Plus you can do cool stuff like playing with DNS and redirects. So people can hit the fileservers without knowing its ips. http://files and they can get all the mods/patches.

I personally love DHCP, I can plug in my work laptop at home and not reconfigure any tcp/ip settings. I even tweaked my dhcpd.conf so that my MAC address gets the same IP and network settings for VPN.

Also, Now that switches are cheap, might as well spend the extra 10-20 bux and get a switch. 8 ports switches are like 40 bux now.

Lanparty.com

A guide like this has existed for quite some time. Check out lanparty.com. It rocks!

Here's a direct link to their guide to hosting a lanparty

http://www.lanparty.com/theguide/

Don't plan!

For some reason, whenever I write out a plan for an upcoming LAN event hosted by myself (using vi, of course) we never get around to playing the games I planned to play (Eg. AvP, Jedi Knight, Emperor battle for Dune, Summoner, CounterStrike), instead, everyone wants to play nothing but UT. But, when I use emacs to plan it out, noone shows up :(

One thing not to do:

One thing not to do... post your gateway to /. and watch your systems get flooded.

Good Projector - Sony CPJ-200

My best Lan Party investment to date was the nifty little Sony CPJ-200. Street price is under $800.

http://www.supremevideo.com/internet_specials/cpj2 00projector.htm [supremevideo.com]

You'll need a dimish room for it to be effective, but we tend to have our lan parties in darkened rooms anyway. 16 monitors keeps things bright enough to walk around, yet dark enough for the projector to work fine.

lanparty.com!

Another website with not only tips on how to plan/organize your party, but a big list of parties in towns that might be near you, is www.lanparty.com [lanparty.com].
Personally, I'm getting too old to cart my 'puter across town and hook it up just to play games, but I sure had fun at the parties I did make it to.

My LAN parties

My LAN parties were bad ass!

Me and my brother playing Red Alert!

That was the shit!

Nowadays I don't play anymore. Too busy chasing women and drinking Captain!

Peace!

The legend has spoken!

Haven't done a lan party in years.

Used to play 8-player doom on ps/2 machines (with token-ring) at school every day for my entire freshman year of highschool. We would've had more people, but the DOOM engine was limited to only 8 nodes.

I think it would be cool to get the ol' gang together for a lan party, the suggestion has come up.. but people don't want to move their equipment, bastards. Then there was the issue of a place to put the equipment for those interested.

Now that I have my own place (apartment) and everyone of us has at least 3 spare computers lying around.. this suggestion may come up again soon, I can only hope :)

bandwidth

the first rule, of course, if you're going to be playing online, is bandwidth.

*ahem* slashdoted *ahem*

Re:bandwidth

No. The first rule of the LAN party is that you don't talk about the LAN party.

LAN Party?

Well I've never been to a Lan party, but I presume they are pretty wild. Kids overdosing on Jolt soda, and snickers bars. I've heard of some so wild that police were called for fights over who gets to be the first to play the new Warez role playing game.

Whither the SF Bay Gaming Scene?

A list of one-time and recurring LAN parties [bluesnews.com] is available Blue's News [bluesnews.com]. Notice something weird about it?

Yup. There's no regular LAN party in the San Francisco Bay Area. (BANGG (Bay Area Network Gaming Group) [bangg.org] appears to have gone quiescent.) Anyone out there know of recurring LAN parties on or near the SF peninsula?

Schwab

Ultimate Guide to Hosting a LAN Party COMING SOON!

I just lost out on a deal to get this idea going, so i'll GPL it as long as I get credit(donations to keep me thinkin are cool). I was gonna post my business plan but i'll keep it short to save bandwidth.

Gamehouses are just starting to arrive on the US shores. They are a import from over the pacific.

If current economic trends continue, gamehouses will continue to rise in popularity because games will continue to require ever more complex hardware than before.
Plus setting up a network is easy when you got 3 network guys in the room (unless they start arguing over what's wrong with the network) but can be quite intimidating to the average user.
Broadband companies are dropping like flies.

So the time is good to start one.

I've looked at several game houses around where I live, and I know the secret to setting myself apart from the ordinary screwdriver shop gamehouse..

Game House with hard rock cafe style nostalgia gimmick.

Not rock and roll, game nostalgia, you know, old console systems and computers. Thresh's mouse from the first tourney he won, or his ferrari(actually carmacks). The first pong machine or maybe one of those atari store units with 100 cartridges in it.

Serve sugary sweet liquids and solids.

Anyways lan parties are nice, but i've done many and there is allways some kind of hassle. I can't provide hardware for my buds to play on cause I just can't afford it. Game houses, one's gonna be near you soon.

--toq

~~Mods *Note, posted with my real account because I stand behind my opinions, remember AC=karma whore

Wishy-washy namby-pamby corporate sponsored crap

That article was cleary written for morons, who overplan everything. IT IS A PARTY, not a damn business conference. Checking in indeed. Just get together, bring as much kit as you can get hold of and have fun setting it up half the night.

it's all about fun (with pics)

a LAN party shouldn't be about extreme hardware or exotic projection systems. It should be about fun. We started ours in a small one-car garage and they've only gotten better. But looking back, it was the least-planned parties that were the best. We even had one in my tiny apartment -- in fact it got so cramped that we had to move the furnature to the bedroom and outside and even balance a monitor on the edge of the kitchen sink. But know what, it was a blast! We played games for over 18 hours, most of us surviving thru the whole thing.

http://www.hublan.com/hublan09/HubLAN9-6.jpg [hublan.com]

http://www.hublan.com/hublan09/HubLAN9-7.jpg [hublan.com]

lanparty.com

I agree, lanparty.com has the best stuff for hosting a lan party. This guide is very servicable, but it doesn't get down to the nitty-gritty of eletricity, eletricity, eletricity. Setting it up, having enough of it, and creative solutions when you don't have enough.

Modem Wars

Back in the 80's I had a party at my house dedicated to the game Modem Wars. Anyone remember it? Awsome game. We didn't have a LAN though. We just hooked the computers up in pairs with 1200 baud baud modems. Half the machines were PC's and the other half were Commodores. At the time it was quite impressive that the game could be played between different operating systems.

Gaming Cafes Instead

I've run quite a few LAN parties, but I'm steering more towards booking out local gaming cafes these days. It's just easier.

• All hardware already there and set up
• Games installed and patched
• Hardware competition-grade (no more sore losers on P233s)
• Nerdboy clerk to help people with tech problems, so I don't have to
• Often ninja-fast net link for online team gaming
• Stacks of gaming supplies (caffeine drinks, snacks, local fast food delivery menus)
• Some cafes have a BAR! (Playing Fields in London, yay!)
• Paying to play makes people act cooler, reducing the "Screw you guys, I'm playing Tribes Shifter Server or going home!" factor

dilweed's 15 minute guide to LAN party bliss.

Firstly, there is a lot of different types of LANs.
I started out doing a 2 player thin coax LAN at my house.
That balloned up to a 12 player coax LAN at my house.
Then it became a 10/100 2 5-port hub, 8 player LAN at my friend Mikey's house...
The next step was a 40-50 player LAN in nice comfortable leather high back chairs and rented hotel space.
And now it's a 100-140 player LAN at Stars recreation center (www.stars.com) in Vacaville.

For lack of a better term I turned "pro". I now do it for money. Once you make the jump from garage LAN to paid LAN you have to keep the atomsphere of the garage LAN but deliever the reliability, power, and network of a professional LAN.
Garage LAN:
DIVERSIFICATION
Some people are console freaks, some people are PC freaks. Have plenty of both. Consoles are great, because you don't have to blow $500 to play a game. Big screens with movies are good too (but watch them copyrights on public viewings!)
PARTY ATOMSPHERE
Keep it relaxed and enjoyable. Do not break out the fine china and do not throw a LAN at a house or location with fine China to break. Loud music (techno, phat beats, or rock) is a must.

Professional LAN:
POWER
Buy, rent, or steal enough power so that there is never a blow circuit. Waiting an hour or so for the circuit breaker to cool down is retard (Go morons in Sacto!).
NETWORK
9 ms ping is your target. Have you ever tried to lightning gun in Rocket Arena 3 with higher than 50 ping? It sucks so much ass... Do you know how evil a railgun is at 9 ms ping?
Internet access is always very nice. More is better, but a little with do. If you have multiday events it's great to check your email. (Gets people to advertise your event to their buddies :) ).
SPONSORS
Everyone likes to get something for nothing. Give away prizes. Get some local or national company to pitch in and just give the stuff away. It's not that big a deal, but to a gamer it makes all the world.
TOURNAMENTS
Everyone likes to win too. Not only do you get the sweet file sharing at a LAN, but you also can prove your skilz. Run a baby single elimination tournament and then ballon it from there. Double elimination is good if you can handle the logistics... It gives everyone 2 games at least... even the people that suck at Quake 3 like me :).
LEGAL
If you allow minors, back off the pr0n and alcohol. You need stated policies and enforcement against them. That's the damn rules :(.

Ok, it's 3 AM, I'm going to bed. Gamerzday is always looking for more locations to LAN... got any ideas? :)

(Damn it's 3:02... It took 17 minutes!)

Tribscon lan party

Just curious, how many /.'ers goto tribescon lan parties? 1999/2000/2001?

We have normally over 200+ people, and each person chips in 25-50 bux for renting the room. (also couple bux of it goes for prizes)

At the 2001 tc3 we had tribalwar.com and wsbn sponser us, it was at portaland airport embassy suites. 2002 tc4 will be in SanFransico (Rumors)
Oh yeah, we had the Dynamix dev team show up again. Nice of them, since they were just canned. (fcking sierra...)

Great article except....

This is great and shows that those that run large lan-parties are good at networking abd are valuable people to have around.

Only problem was the author's crack, "Any smart people will run virus software anyways"... Hey Bite Me! I have virus software but I do not run it, I use my computer in a way that significantly reduces the threat of Virii. First, I have completely switched to linux, but before then in my Windows life, I have NEVER gotten a virus running rampant on my pc. I have found and dissected them, researched them (and the early virii were damned clever programs, the stuff now is all crap)

a SMART computer user doesnt need to run a virus scanning program, they dont get infected by the normal stupid channels by blindly opening email, downloading filez from untrusted sites, leaving shares open, etc... and yes I do scan once per day (well in my windows world I did) just to clean up any shared areas on the server.

At School!

Me and a couple of friends set up a lan party at School during the last week of the summer term. We had about 12 computers with an extra one projecting the game onto a large screen. We made loads of money for charity but it was really difficult to persuade the admin to allow us, we also had problems with irritating kinds wanting to change the controls every 5 minutes. What is the best option, leaving it on default controls, or allow people to change?

From experience...

I've hosted a few LAN parties at my house, and we're doing it more now (2 in the last 2 weeks). It's usually 8 to 15 people. Nobody's got any amazing hardware, just a few 8 port 10Base-T hubs, although we'll be going 100mbps soon.

Things that are important to us:

• DHCP - I know people say its simpler to let Windows arrange the networking by itself, but generally all my friends houses (that are big enough to have a LAN party at) aleardy have DHCP, and Windows messes it up sometimes anyway when there's lots of people. Plus, DHCP will set up your internet gateway and DNS too :-)
• Air conditioning - Even with 5 people in a small room on a cold day it gets pretty warm pretty quickly
• Be near a shop - No matter how prepared you are, you'll always need more food (unless you're rich and over-buy to start with
• Someone experienced in networking - It sucks when people get confused about what an uplink socket is for. You should have someone that knows all about it overseeing the network setup.
• Installation Disks/CDs - We had one computer refuse to see the network and refuse to re-install its network drivers, so it needed Windows re-installed (typical); and another lost its registry and didnt have it backed up. it's always a good idea to have Video, Sound, Network and Windows installation CDs with you.
• Internet - People need a break from gaming at some point and most geeks need to check their mail. I've also found this to be useful for downlaoding latest patches, using USENET (or Google) to find the answer to some strange compatability problems, etc.
• Music - The louder the better. And make sure there is one source of music (people's PC should be playing sound effects - not music. If its' mp3 music, get it all onto the machine thats's going to play it at the start so SMB file transfers aren't slowing down the network during gameplay.

My friends and I haven't ventured into the organized type of party where there are tournaments and prizes, but I think we'll be trying that next time, just for a change.

P.S. Why do people try to bring up the subject of terrorist attacks in nearly every slashdot discussion? That's really annoying to some people. If you're going to discuss terrorism, do it in a newsgroup about terrorism, or current events.

earphones

Don't forget to tell newbies to bring headphones/earphones. While your set of klipsch promedia speakers may be cool, we don't need to hear explosions at gut-ratteling volumes times 20.

I got your lan party right here......

It's called a college dorm. There's food, plenty of switches, and a DHCP server (at least here anyway). Dorm = 24/7 lan party, and it only costs $10,000/year!

Half rave, half lan party

The last LAN party I went to was real fun. We had a projector which played a few good/bad movies(it doesn't make Joes Apartment any better), but momre importantly, we had tables.

Nothing is more fun than having a DJ spin while you're playing Counterstrike, and having a large projection(life-size) screen of someone playing Cstrike on that.

Then when we were all gamed out, we watched Quake 1 and 2 done quickly, some strange music videos(one from Atari Teenage Riot involving erasing faces) and had a blast.

It's all the music of a rave, without the fucking e-tards, cudddle puddles, or police involvement.

Thank God for LAN Parties

Back in the early days of broadband (1999 for me :) I regularly got pings to most servers in the 40-80 range and was LOVING it. Fast forward 2.5 years and packet loss makes nearly every game unplayable. I can't find any servers under 100ms ping time.

This weekend, I'm going to one of the best, if not the best, lan parties around http://www.gamersgauntlet.com/

They have networking and power consumption down to an art form. They give away prizes (last time a GeForce 2 Pro card was one prize), run tourneys, and all-around provide an excellent time. The staff is friendly and accomodating to everyone's needs. It really can't be beat.

I've hosted a few mini-lans at my house and I have to say that having some networking experience w/Linux has been a great help. Running the games servers on Linux has given me very favorable results (compared to win2k).

It's so sad that I'm 33 years old and addicted to LAN gaming. So sad. :)

Oldest First? [ot]

A wierd hting I noticed...

This comment (2382187) [slashdot.org] was posted at 03:00 AM. I then posted this comment (2382608) [slashdot.org], which natuarally gets a higher comment ID.

The strange thing is that viewing this page which shows threaded comments, oldest first, shows mine above the original article. Am I missing something, or does shalsdot have a strange and twisted idea of "oldest first"?

Tips for Games?

I know that everyone recomends quake, etc as great games, but here is the major problem that i've run into. what if everyone doesnt have the games (trying to stay legal here.. somewhat)??

Games like starcraft take care of this problem by allowing spawns... are there any other options like this? maybe using demo games that will allow one to connect to a network game and have full options?

I'd like as many options as possible... that will work without using hacks... (no duped cd'keys and all that... again.. i'm trying to stay somewhat legal here...)

--fyrebryan

jokes on you

This post was really a trick to get all of the dorks to confess. I will now be taking your lunch money and delivering wedgies.

What is this guy on?

Of course, all of this depends on how far north or south you live: air conditioning is useless in the Polar Regions, and the same is true for heating near the equator.

Well, no shit!

Of course, all the computers in the world would be useless in a LAN party without the networking gear

Sherlock :-P

Now, to take it to the next step....

These large-scale lan-parties need to organize a little bit between themselves - like holding the parties at the same time, and having some high-speed links between them. Then, you're not playing with 100, or 200, or even 400 people, you could be playing with 1,000 or more. Done right, it could be implemented without a terrible increase in cost, but make things a lot more fun.

steve

LAN Party == Drunk Quake

Its just like it says, simple rules until everyone passes out or forgets how to use the mouse. (this is for Quake 3, but you can adapt it anyway you want)

1. Set up a game like you normally do.
2. at the end the winner takes a drink(or shot if you're so inclined)
3. for each of the status badges you got (multi-kill, rail award, accuracy...) you take a drink.
4. Repeat ad nausem.

Ah, fragging your friends and your liver at the same time! What could be better!

Big lan Parties Rock

I hosted one a couple of years back, check it out:

Ottawa Citizen Coverage of some local parties [google.com]
and

My party... Ottawa Quakefest [monitor.ca]

Thanks for commenting on my article

Well, I'm glad some of you loved it and some of you hated it. Weirdly enough, nobody has sent me any comments through my email, which if you notice on the top of the article, is [e-mail] [mailto]. This is my first article for OnePC.net, and I'm happy that at least some people think it's a great article. Please tell me what you liked and didn't like.

BTW, thanks for all the hits to OnePC.net, the most of any article so far. I'm going to see if you guys can crash the server again with my next guide!

Re:Get a GRIP

Sure lots of people died, sure it was a shock to you that warfare is now global.

However, speaking as someone who has lived through a sustained series of terrorist bombing attempts, fixating on it is the worst thing you can do.

You could die tomorrow, under a car.

You could choke on a peanut.

You get on and live your life instead. You accept that your understanding of the way the world works was wrong; you adapt.

You live in the moment. That moment might include a LAN party.

You need to get a grip. Living life is what's important. Growing to be more than you are at the moment is important. Some god-fearing nutter is not important. Not unless you can DO something about it - and YOU can't.

Get OVER it

True, there were terrorist attacks a few weeks ago. True, lots of people died. Some people (read: most people) have moved on with their lives. All the whining and crying in the world won't do a lick of good now. The only thing we can do is try to make some sense of what happened and try to live our lives.

WHO needs priorities?

The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred less than three weeks ago, and you are trolling on slashdot instead of doing something about it? Go donate some blood, money or some of your time instead of ragging on other people if you are so concerned about it.

Re:Get some PRIORITIES

Come on now .. exactly when is it time to move on then?

Are you seriously saying that all fun activity all over the world should stop, "just" because of what happened in NYC?

Its not, in any way, that I dont think this was a terrible terrible thing, but hey, life DOES go on, even after a tragedy like this.

Re:/. ed

Considering i opened the story almost immidaitly after it was posted (only 2 posts at that time) and am still able to click prev and next, i'd say the site ISN'T slashdotted and this guy is just a karma whore. Any moderators reading this, don't mod the parent up.

Re:Best lanparty.

That sounds quite cool.
Do you know if takeover 2k2 is going to be
in Eindhoven as well?
(that would yet be another good reason the be an exchange student here, which I am right now :-)

ALeX

Re:Virus Checkers? Whats this guy selling?

My problem with virus scanners isn't so much the theory, rather the idea that the payload of a virus checker is greater than the payload of most viruses.

Virus checkers of today:
- Sit in your system tray, consuming 4MB of ram to keep you notified of the fact they're running.
- Intercept all file IO to ensure no viruses are written to disk.
- Pop up an alert users every time a suspect file is found, and usually prompt for an action.
- in Win9x systems, add 30 seconds to boot time to ensure that between the time the virus checker was stopped during a windows shutdown, and the time the commandline scan was run no viruses were added to your system.

Payload of most viruses:
- Intercept file IO
- Email themselves out to propegate

The new installs of Mcafee don't give you the option any more of just installing the command line client. And 'netshield' for servers happily sits there on your file server and adds another layer to your file IO.

Really it's not like wearing a condom, its more like staying 3 feet away from everyone of the opposite sex all your life because it 'minimises the risk of viral propigation'

It's absolute overkill spawned by market hype and paranoia.

There are *STILL* no viruses out that propigate without USER INTERVENTION.

Which means, if you do get a virus, YOU'VE FUCKED UP.

Installing virus checkers is like installing crumple zones on the bottom of PAN-AM aeroplanes so they are less likely to kill people in the event of a crash... the question shouldn't be "What can we do to make these aeroplanes better in a crash" It should be "Why the fuck do our aeroplanes keep falling out of the sky?"

Re:Virus Checkers? Whats this guy selling?

Unfortunatly, at the last lan party I was at, a virus got out in the wild. Everyone was play q3a, and someone had the new Dragonball Z mod, so everyone grabbed that and started installing it. When about half were already done, someone shouted "Hey, this shit's a virus." Sure enough, it had a virus payload.

I'm sure glad I wasn't the guy with the virus'd file. He got the piss kicked out of him by some pretty upset drunk guys.

*chuckle*