Non-viral computer pranks

[MediocrityInAction]

Id give you my non-viral computer prank. But it involves a floppy disk and a pack of matches. And I don't think the mods would look too kindly on it.

A similar one involves a CD with a crack on the inner rim and a high-speed CD drive. Again, I doubt the mods would be too pleased.

 

[pgp_protector]

One prank I did was create a quick program so I could remotly control a popup window on a coworkers system.

I would send any message to there system, and could see how they responded to it, I.E. I could state that there system is in violation of corp pollicy, cancel / ignore, and know what button they pushed and send new responses based on that


What was fun was when they recived the message that there HD was going to be formated due to security violations

 

[MiccyNarc]

This thread deserves the best thread in history award

 

[MiccyNarc]

Double post =\
Anyhow, I just taught my sister to password protect her Windows account

 

[He put me back together]

Make a startup wav file, absolute silence for about 5 minutes, then a series of sirens or something, then silence again, then gunshots or something.

Another one for wav files is (typically on a profile or a wav archive or some place where they'll want to activate the file themselves) to initially start speaking in a normal manner, then gradually go into a faint mumble, that is just barely illegible. Do this just long enough to make them turn their volume way up, then scream as loud and as high as you can into the mic.

 

[He put me back together]

My brother is a huge fan of Diablo 2, and invests a great deal of time and effort into the game. Understandably, he can get irritated if interrupted at a vital moment. The game involves use of the ALT key, which on Windows machines is next to the WIN key. So I switch the two. Nett result isw that at inopportune moments, he hits the ALT key, only to have it dump him from the game.
Or you can tape over the bottom of an optical mouse. It is best to use a label which looks like it belongs there, such as a barcode or serial number label.

Oh, here's something a fellow could pull if he could get Microsoft Visual C++ to disassemble a replaceable program: Just put INT 3 in a random location in the assembly so the report-a-problem screen will pop up every time they run it That might not qualify as "non-viral," though. If you wanted to do it with Diablo, I'd suggest making sure that the games are saved in another folder besides "Diablo2/save," just in case.

 

[He put me back together]

A similar one involves a CD with a crack on the inner rim and a high-speed CD drive. Again, I doubt the mods would be too pleased.

you could also use a skill saw blade and a high-speed CD drive, but...well, a skill saw motor works better methinks

 

[MiccyNarc]

hahahahaha. Kindof reminds me of the little smiley face icon that's named "game." When you open it, it displays a message dialog that says "Format C drive?" As the user spits out his coffee and tries to click "no," it then displays a *fake* window of all his file icons, quickly disappearing. Then it displays another dialog that says something about shutting down because there's nothing on the hard drive to reference then the whole thing exits and you see your normal desktop again, with the little smiley face looking at you.

Where can I get that?

 

[sb17joker]

you right click on the desktop & in XP go to "arrange icons by" & click show desktop icons to toggle the icons off instead of deleting them, & leave the pic of the desktop as wallpaper & then after the joke easilly fix it, then you aren't as likely to upset the person you are doing this to & makes it more harmless....

Scott

 

[Lemrin]

I like the one that pops up saying your hard drive will be formatted unless you click the OK button, but the window keeps moving away from your mouse so you can't ever get the mouse over it to hit OK

 

[Egroeg]

Most of these just sound annoying. In my mind, the best and most "useful" prank is to stick a Knoppix CD in the drive like Morrog suggested. Then once the victim gets used to it, back up his documents, format his HDD*, and install a Linux distro for him. I really doubt he'll miss Windoze after about a week, especially since he now has the chance to be his own little sysadmin.
On that note, which distro is the best? I'm torn between Slackware and Linux From Scratch.

*A word of caution: make sure your victim isn't using any programs (like AutoCAD) that don't have Windoze equivalents. You could do real damage in that case.