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obnoxious virus (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I did this in high school, it was just a basic script that spawned a warning dialog box (the kind thats always on top) that just said you can't close this, part of the script action was making tge task scheduler check every few seconds if the script was running... If it wasn't then run it.

Since I was making the task scheduler do the checking it meant even if you tried to task manager force close the script it would just open again in a few seconds, it was not a permanent task it was a temporary one and every opening of the script would reset that task so basically the only way to get rid of it was to restart the computer as that would clear the task.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I used to make a batch file that opened a command prompt that opened the batch file again and again and put it on the computers as the internet Explorer logo.

People would get so mad when they opened it as a cascade of cmd would open until the computer crashed

So something like that i think

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Sounds like a weak fork bomb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It wasn't a file, it was a webpage. And it loaded infinite popups showing a dude's gaping anus, turned the volume up to 100%, and played a loop of "Hey everyone, I'm looking at gay porno!"

goatse

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

I don’t remember the details but my mom’s first cousin called me once to fix her computer when I was a teenager.

No matter what she typed it came out as, “I AM FUCKING GAY!”

Seems like all I had to do was type “stop”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The mouse cursor switches between normal and inverted every 2 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Uhh, it was "Hey everybody, I'm looking at gay porno!" and then it proceeded to spawn hundreds of internet exploder windows pointing at goatse.cx. Thank God I was at home, alone, when it got me.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Finds anything and everything that can be set to dark mode and sets it back to light mode, but not while you're using it and not immediately.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

Supposedly there was a DOS virus that would spawn a pacman that would eat your letters as you typed them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

In my highschool programming class we made a TSR (in Borland pascal) that would change every 15th keypress to an "e". It wasn't self propagating, so it wasn't a virus per day, but it was highly annoying. It survived on memory after the netware logoff, and you could only get rid of it by rebooting.

We also had these everex brand 286 or 386 computers.... They had a little LCD screen that would read out what sector/track was being read on the disk. We found the memory address (80h) where we could write arbitrary text to the LCD. That was fun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It was not a virus, but still great fun: coworker had a fat UNIX workstation, but no idea of the particulars except for the program he was using. I knew my ways around such machines, and I could log in from another machine via serial terminal.

What the coworker knew about the audio capabilities of his machine was the occasional "beep" it made. I found the "auplay" command, and a list of 8-bit audio samples.

So one day I was sitting at the PC next to him, logged in, and command ready to run, and waited for an error message to pop up. Then I pressed return, starting "auplay laughter.au".

That face.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

When I was in high school I made a .bat file that autoran when you put it in a device. All it would do is open the disc drive every 90 seconds however it did convince one teacher that she had a virus which caused giggles all around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I remember something like this being passed around as a "free coffee cup holder" - and when you ran it, all it would do was open your cd rom tray.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have made some silly programs. One that moved the mouse pointer one pixel left, then down, right and up. It was quite annoying. Another that moved the mouse pointer when you reached the edge of the screen, touching the rightmost pixel row would move it to the left side of the screen and vice versa, same thing with top and bottom.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

You basically invented the endless desktop functionality, lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Switch the M and N keymaps

Also delete and enter

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

How about a programm which screams "aaaaaaa" after you unlock your screen. Barely hearable at first and it gets louder with every minute. People who don't know how to remove it would have to lock and unlock their screens every 5 minutes or so.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

While the computer is on, at random intervals, it shall play the sound of a smoke alarm's low battery beep using audio technology to make it sound like it's coming from somewhere else in your house.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

A virus that changes Windows' sticky keys to only requiring two taps of the shift key.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Sounds like a variation of the Ohio virus. I used to have a copy of it for the Amiga Amstrad. It would trigger and make the piezo speaker say “Ohio Ohio Ohhhh!”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

back when I was in school someone wrote a script that just openened the optical drive at random intervals and put it in the Autostart of every PC in the Comouter room

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