PC PRANKS!!
 

Just wondering if anyone knows of any funny computer pranks anything from network jokes to stand alona applications people have written.
Please tell all details if they are complex pranks, for those who are playin at home!!

My best at the moment (oldy but Goldy)
Start >> Run >> CMD >> shutdown -f -m //computerneme -t 00

This will instantly shutdown a network PC without warning.

GET POSTIN- no matter how lame.
eg. 3.5 Floppy DiCk.

If I have the time, I'll take a screenshot of my buddy's desktop, delete all of his desktop icons, then set the screenshot of his desktop as the backround, minimize the start button taskbar, and viola: it looks like his computer is frozen. He can manually restart however many times he wants, and it will never "work" until I show him what happened. (I usually get punched afterwards, but it's totally worth it to see the frustration on their faces).

I also did random pranks on high school kids when I worked for my school fixing the computers. We would remote access some computer a KNI! (known idiot) is on, and randomly close his programs, send em messages, etc. Good times getting back at the little crappers for messing everything up on the machines daily.

I still haven't done this one.

I was witness to this one between two coworkers: the prankster manually changed the names of all of the victim's desktop icons to their Spanish equivalents, then told the guy he had turned on his "Spanish setting." The victim spent hours trying to "set" them all back to English.

That reminds me of our last PBX system.. a Merlin Legend from Lucent. The internal extension for the voice mail was 7929. The feature code for having all the menus on your phone be in Spanish was *792. Once in a while somebody would graze the * on their way to the 7 and turn on the Spanish.

You probably should not be encouraging the first time poster ...

Well, he apparently picked a topic worth discussing. What's not to encourage? :eyebrow:

Well they're brains are like dry sponges coming into the damp Cellar.. very impressionable you know.

Well, i am a first time poster in the cellar yes, but i have posted else where before i found this brilliant website. By the way any one got any complex pranks (want to extend my knowledge of programming, whlst having some fun, eg Daves desktop photo prank). What language is an easy yet effective one to write simple prank programs??

Something cool i just learnt: Start a notepad doc. paste:

MsgBox "D:\ CONTAINS HARMFULL MATERIAL, INCLUDING VEGEMITE",vbcritical,"WARNING"


Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection

if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next ' cdrom
End If


Where "Warning" and "D:\ CONTAINS HARMFULL MATERIAL, INCLUDING VEGEMITE" can be changed to suit. Save as blah.vbs - this will display error msg. and open optical drives!!- if Windows media player is installed!!Cool eh?

If you want, you could just beat him at freecell everytime. You start the game and type XYZZY followed by hitting the SHIFT button, and it will change the upper left pixel on the top of your screen. If you drag your mouse over a bomb, it turns black. If you are not on a bomb it turns white. Nobody will know you're looking at a single pixel. You can play for beers.

I think you mean minesweeper ... but awesomely cool that is. Not the hack itself, but the secret word gives me a warm sense of nostalgia. Now where did I put my 3 foot rod with the rusty star on the end?

bak on topic...- Well im interested on a post fade in a different forum by Dave - he claims, probably did, to write a program that took a screenshot then placed that image as an always on top fullscreen thing- so it appears like the computer has frozen. If you know even where to start in writing this app. post below, or for that matter any other funn pranks apps that ppl can write in a simple leanguage, like Vb or sumn. Well hope some one has some thing...

LOOK OUT FOR THE PENGUINS!!!

Oops I said freecell instead of minesweeper. Freecell is my official work stress release

Find your favorite HP laserjet printer in the office with one of those LCD displays that says "READY". I think this one only works on HP4 or 5s and up. Find the IP address it is attached to the network with and telnet to that address, port 9100, and send the following string:

←%-12345X@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY="LOW COOLANT"

The message that normally reads "READY" should change to your new, rather confusing error. Great fun if you write a script that changes it randomly.

Someone even <a href="http://www.ancientpond.com/ljshen.html">wrote a utility</a> to do it for you if you pipe it to the network name.

can IT track where it came from?

Could they? Yeah. Will they? Doubt it. I don't even think the printers keep access logs.

help me 2!
 

hey ppl,
i live near 'geoff' the guy who started this post and i have a slightly diff problem.

I want to add a shortcut to the desktop of comps at school, but the desktops are loaded from the server not the local computer, is there any way to get round this? i just want to change the word shortcut to one that logs the person off, i know how to do the shortcut bit but not how to put it on hte server.

thanks

See, I told you guys not to encourage him, and now he's bringing friends.

Bringing my friends...pfhh..anyway..back to the issue..and why shouldn't people encourage me. You have to start somewhere and I want to learn how to code so why not have some fun while doing it? Now again I want to know the VBscript for taking a screenshot, THanks in advance.

Thanks for the printer gag. It worked like a charm.

You don't need vbscript to take a screenshot. Pressing the Print Screen button saves a picture of the desktop to the clipboard. You can use an application like irfanview to grab it off of the clipboard and save it to a bmp.

Then read up on how to create a full-screen borderless window and how to display a bmp image.

And Bob's your uncle.

Get 4-5 pices of paper , print a nasty message on them , scrolling left to right or up to down ( use your imagenation ) , tape them togather with the ends loose ,feed them into a fax , dial the number of a telemarketer , then as the end comes out tape it to the tail , continous "FUCK YOU " untill the fax runns out of paper , or to REALLY mess with sombody make the background BLACK and type the mesage in WHITE , this will run the fax out of ink , or you Could do a mobious strip alternating from light to dark , again use your imagination ;)

Once YEARS ago I found a Monty Python disk that would remap the sounds from the key board to FART sounds , my boss finaly figured out who was messing with him , WELL he should have known since i removed and rearanged his keys on his key board once . ;)

Does anyone know how to find free ports to telnet on a local network, I plan to run applicaations remotely, (need help there too), I dont care about being logged, and that the data is unencrypted over telnet (I know...) Thanks in advance.

Cmon-if uve read this please post something....

Call the network administrator and ask which ports to telnet to.

Look at your own IP and network mask to figure out the range of IP's you're on...at least on your own segment. Also use what information you have to figure out the segments for the various servers on your network.

Run a portscan utility.

Chances are your business network doesn't have telnet available since it's old technology and there are many more secure alternatives. If it's a windows network, the network admin may have setup terminal services. But unless you're given access to this, you won't be able to get it. If you do have access, just download the terminal services client from Microsoft, and install it. Connect to the server and you can run anything you like remotely.

If you want to run things from home, and the servers are behind a firewall, things get a lot more complicated.

Awesome. Feel free to share an errors you generate. I'm always looking for new ones to confuse the office, here.

"NO RESUMES"
"SPELLING ERRORS DETECTED"
"LOAD PAPER GENTLY"
"REPLACE SQUIRREL"

Feed Hamster
Hello Paul
I see you
BOO
BUY NEW PRINTER
Insert $1

The simpliest joke i know is to put a sticker on optical mouse's LED.
Another good joke with mice is to connect additional USB mouse to neighbour's PC. It will work with additional USB keyboard too.