Excellent prank. In college we used to log into the campus forums and make posts under the user's account discussing our love for pants. Everyone needs a little jab to be reminded of good security habits.
we used to set the homepage to some random porn website, it was especially funny when people forgot to lock their computer right before connecting to a projector :P
An interesting variant is to do what you said, but in newer browsers you can define multiple tabs as homepages - so set about 30 porn sites to open in separate tabs as homepages. Then, the person struggles to close the tabs since the browser almost locks up loading them all at once :)
LOL..
I think it's a old song..
In my college too, my friend are use for watch some porn video and we watch together in class..LOL
It's really crazy...:D
I used to sit with a bunch of software programmers in college (I'm in electrical). When they went for an hour lecture they'd leave a bunch of items behind so it looked like they were only gone to get lunch and I was saving their seats. One day one of them left his laptop unlocked. Me and a fellow of his who skipped lecture had fun. We wanted to embed the fresh prince theme song into his wallpaper but that leaves an icon and he had a clean desktop so we took a screencap of his current setup then embedded the song then set the screencap as his wallpaper and hid his icons. Then we switched the function of his mouse buttons.
One time at my university, someone forgot to log out of their account and the person that got a hold of this computer ended up dropping the guy out of all his classes.
That is staggeringly messed up; it's not even funny. If these were impacted classes and the person could not re-enroll, then the prankster just threw a semester of someone's life out the window.
I wrote a program that runs as a windows service, and accepts local network connections. You can connect to it from your desktop, and make the CD tray eject, or sound the PC speaker. Usually we'd wait until the target was on the phone or deep in concentration.
Or drop them from all of their classes and send messages with racial slurs to all non-white professors.
True story at my school but I didn't partake in it. It caused a HUGE ruckus that the student systems now make it impossible to do that kind of stuff.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
At work we generally just turn on accessibility views with high contrast, huge text, and a tiny resolution. It really screws up their display, and with the right settings it can change their remembered window and icon positions. People learn quickly to lock their computers.
It's not a permanent change or anything, nor is it something that they are going to have to explain to friends later that they didn't write online or might have issues with later.
Shift-Alt-PrintScr works nicely. Also, Win+U to open the accessibility settings is quite fun when you switch all the accessibility enhancements on. Confuses the hell out of people when they can't work out why their computer is describing everything to the using text-to-speech.
I use the Print Screen method. It actually doesn't "turn on" the settings inside the Control Panel applet, so even when you open that it is all turned off and you can't fix it. You have to know the key combination to turn it back off.
Don't forget to reverse the right and left click functionality of the mouse, add long mouse trailers, put a link to rick roll in the "startup" folder in their start menu, crank the sound, change their facebook status to something appropriately inappropriate(depending on how you know them).
Porn in the office is dangerous, which is why it is best kept outside. I had a boss who used to tape horrendous XXXXXXX porn on the passenger side of people's cars if they parked with the driver's side towards the office exit. People would drive all the way home without knowing why other motorists were point, laughing and, occassionally, vomitting.
Everyone and their mother know that, yet he still gets 150 diggs. Its like a popularity contest and once people see something get dugg, they have to digg it to, to be part of the cool kids.
A network/computer name shows up there on certain version of windows. He would type his account name to log in... not to undermine the humor in your comment.
Sucks...we're on IE8 w/ Office 2007, but most still use XP. Half of our IT department is on Win7 x64, and we're rolling it out next year (company-wide) with Office 2010 and IE9. No Vista.
No company wants to spend millions of dollars and man-hours to upgrade equipment, servers, programs and licenses, IS departments, etc. just because an OS isn't "cool" anymore.
Exactly the truth! If a computer has problems or comes due on the company's replacement cycle, then by all means train the user on a new OS and give them that instead. But to proactively upgrade the user from an old, industry supported and Microsoft supported OS to a new one just because it's newer, is a waste of money.
I am helping to upgrade 380 machines from xp to 7.
XP is FAR superior to 7 in large environments. I can only imagine you made that comment because you've never used 7 on a domain. It is a **clusterf**k** of an enterprise OS.
default profiles are broken completely - it used to take two steps to customize default profiles. now it's an hour long process involving WIM or registry hacks (whichever you hate less)
MS seems to be trying HARD to kill SMB so things like redirecting folders to network shares have been made more complex with no apparent advantage.
network printers added using group policies cause log-on times to reach 5 minutes because UAC silently throws fits.
elevation is needed in the most random of places but not when it should be.
The list goes on, but it stands that 73% of fortune 500 companies are still using XP and at the rate we're going, we'll be re-deploying XP by october.
From my experiences, it sounds like you just haven't properly prepared for your 7 rollout. We're rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise with over 1000 uses, doing all different things from word processing to AutoCAD to proprietary software, and with proper prep and end user training we are having NO problems. The network is secure and fast, the systems are secure and fast, and compatibility is no problem at all. I've never seen UAC bring up issues with anything involving a GPO, including printers. Are you installing a printer company's software on each machine or something crazy like that, or just connecting to a printer shared within the domain?
Agreed about the default profiles cluster-F, what a mess!
Haven't had the printer issue, yet... But we are running a 2008 R2 print server, so maybe that helps with the driver signing and whatnot.
7 seems alright, but I agree that generally M$ have broken a few of the nicer enterprise features they had. Anyone use Exchange 2010 yet? Seriously, we can't create mailbox users from AD? Seriously?
Getting a school district to proactively replace old computers on a refresh cycle is like getting them to replace ineffective teachers... Ain't gonna happen... Once they have sat there for a while, they won't be gone until they have died.
The school my dad works at just upgraded to Office '07 because all the kids have it now and they couldn't get their files to work on the school computers. Still on Windows XP though, since they'd damn near have to upgrade the whole school at once and a lot of the classroom computers are almost as old as XP itself.
I guess we thought it was funny because he would hit the power button on his computer and then run off to get coffee, so it was on there for a couple weeks before he noticed. But then, we don't get out much.
Here's what we do:
1) Take a screen shot of the current desktop
2) paste that into mspaint, then flip horizontal and flip vertical
3) save as JPG and set as background
4) then flip the screen and lock the computer
5) move the lock screen out of the way
The person will come back and it will look like the screen is how he left it. But when I moves the mouse, the pointer will be upsidedown, and move backwards.
I did this to a whole lab full of computers one day. No foolin'. Unfortunately though I didn't get to witness the reaction because I'd be the only person in the room with a working machine and obviously they'd know I did it.
While effective I must say this one person I worked with go so upset that they turned their monitor over to log in. We tried to tell him to log in and hit enter but you know that you are not logged in unless you use the mouse to click ok.
Yeah, they like this one at my work. Before I figured it out I had to reboot my computer because I didn't want to add insult to injury by asking for help to fix it.
I once worked at a place where anyone who walked off and left their computer unlocked would find that they had emailed the whole company with a message having the subject "I love you" and an empty body.
Yeah, I remember, a long time ago, when we thought is was funny to prank my old boss, when he forgot to lock his computer. He was a guy, nearing his retirement. We got the girl from the Scary Maze prank (http://www.maniacworld.com/maze_game.htm) popping up when he was typing a fairly long letter. I thought he got a heartattack judging bij de way he looked when he jumped out of his chair, landing his butt on the floor and his reading glasses. Man, I've never seen anybody more pissed. The guy wasn't a joy to work with in the first place, but after our prank it certainly didn't improve.
Clearly they used that, judging by the font and all. I don't see an option to change the image resolution. Perhaps they put a little photoshop to use? Also if you make the font too long it will overlap Bart, however in the image we seen the font is behind him.
@lorddias, im not sure if they really did use photoshop on that addletters thing. That was a lot more work than i initially thought it was going to be. Lol.
If it's someone who isn't very computer literate, screenshot their desktop, then set it as the background. Hide the taskbar and icons. BAM. Before you know it, they'll be smacking the keyboard and picking up the mouse while clicking it like some kind of tv remote with a leash
Used to do this to the sales guys weekly.
Another fun one is to change the default sound for mail reception to a woman moaning then have everyone in the office bombard them with emails.
Fun stuff.
Print screen desktop, use the print screen as a wallpaper, hide all desktop icons and watch employees get pissed off when they can't open their files or applications from the desktop.
The best computer prank I ever did was to change the home page of every browser to smouch.net, set the screensaver to a screen shot of a BSOD which appeared after only one minute of inactivity, and changed the keyboard layout to something completely random.
in college I print screened the teachers desktop, set it as his background then locked the computer, moved the login window as far off screen it would go in the corner so it was not visible then pressed escape and moved it again, he never left his comp unlocked again after that.
another time I plugged a blue tooth device in to the back of a computer and controlled the cursor with my phone and the ict teacher thought the computer had been hacked, she kept trying to show the other teacher it but I would not move it when he was looking so she looked crazy, eventually on her third trip out the classroom a student from another class had told her phones could do it and she came storming in to check the usb slots but luckily my friend managed to remove it as she came back in.
Where I work if you leave your terminal unlocked you'll return as if nothing has happened, but in your sent items folder you'll find that you sent about 35 emails professing your love of c**k while you were away.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Wouldn't be hard to script this for automation.
Just make a bat file to
copy %userprofile%\Favorites %userprofile%\FavoritesBackup
then have the script go through each file in %userprofile%\favorites
and replace the text with
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g
I guess we thought it was funny because he would come in and turn on his computer and then run off to get coffee, so it was on there for a couple weeks before he noticed. But then, we don't get out much...
That's not Exposé, that's active screen corners. Exposé is the feature that allows you to move all open windows out of the way to see the desktop, or lay them out altogether or by app for easy selection. Windows accomplishes basically the same things with the Show Desktop button and windows key+tab. Exposé has nothing whatsoever to do with security or logging in or out of user accounts.
Exposé triggers my screensaver when I move the cursor to the bottom left. Thus, you have to type in username & password to get back in. Same effect as locking the computer.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
More fun to screenshot their desktop and set that as the wallpaper, hide the desktop icons, unlock the windows bar and put it up top then shrink it as small as it goes and set it to auto hide.
Depending on what type of application they have to save the screenshot it only takes about 30 seconds.
We used to do that to our IT supervisor when he forgot to lock his PC also, but we would send out "very freindly" emails from his email... like telling then entire team to take the week off, saying everyone was getting huge salary increases etc.. setup bogus appointments etc.. he learned quickly.
for one girl I took a screenshot of her desktop, Windows 3.1. then I used VPIC to display the pic from the autoexec. She was showing me the problem saying, "See? look how fast windows starts"
and I said "hmmmm."
and she said "then my mouse is frozen in the middle of my screen and when I click anything windows restarts then everything works normal". Gotta love it. I let her have a weeks worth of it before I told her what I did.
There is a brown wood frame around the chalkboard in the original image. It looks like the bezel in this picture, but it's actually the frame around the chalkboard that you're seeing.
You know you don't need to have any access to anyone's computer to send out an email as them, right? Just do some SMTP injection directly into the mail server, and you can make it look like the email was sent out from anyone you choose. Most email systems are not setup to require authentication to connect to the SMTP server.
A good prank is doing something to their profile - aka, screenshot the desktop and place that as their background, removing all icons (or just remove a few, just for fun), or setting up multiple Outlook rules to duplicate their email.
There is a script on one of my company's servers that is able to send out mail to anyone, as being from anyone. It would be a relatively simple matter to figure out who actually sent it assuming someone knew it exists with all the logging in place, but I had quite a bit of fun sending out a few emails to one of my co-workers as God@$companyname
I think the real story here is that someone was proud of their new desktop wallpaper they just made, but needed a reason to tell people about it, so they took a picture of it and made up a story about "a boss in information security" who forgot to lock his computer and posted it on the internet.
What is next? A picture of a bathtub filled with ice and the story of how somebody woke up in it with no kidneys and note telling him to: "get to a hospital"?
Sad thing is, I bet half of his employees who handle sensitive assets have admin rights and probably violated one or multiple internal policies, but he has no clue it is going one since the Security report system isn't in place because they probably won't have an ISO27000 series in place
fenririiiAug 17, 2010
Excellent prank. In college we used to log into the campus forums and make posts under the user's account discussing our love for pants. Everyone needs a little jab to be reminded of good security habits.
ebcreasonerAug 18, 2010
You have a MBA don't you?
bjornaAug 18, 2010
we used to set the homepage to some random porn website, it was especially funny when people forgot to lock their computer right before connecting to a projector :P
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
An interesting variant is to do what you said, but in newer browsers you can define multiple tabs as homepages - so set about 30 porn sites to open in separate tabs as homepages. Then, the person struggles to close the tabs since the browser almost locks up loading them all at once :)
crazycrazypeteAug 18, 2010
We were big fans of setting unattended homepages to the IGRA
http://www.igra.com
andritobyAug 22, 2010
LOL..
I think it's a old song..
In my college too, my friend are use for watch some porn video and we watch together in class..LOL
It's really crazy...:D
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http://mp3-playerspeakers.com
drunkatgtAug 18, 2010
Whoa, I forgot about that until I just read your comment. I think I went to that same school.
fenririiiAug 19, 2010
Ramblin' Wreck all the way!
t3hdanAug 19, 2010
go jackets
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
I used to sit with a bunch of software programmers in college (I'm in electrical). When they went for an hour lecture they'd leave a bunch of items behind so it looked like they were only gone to get lunch and I was saving their seats. One day one of them left his laptop unlocked. Me and a fellow of his who skipped lecture had fun. We wanted to embed the fresh prince theme song into his wallpaper but that leaves an icon and he had a clean desktop so we took a screencap of his current setup then embedded the song then set the screencap as his wallpaper and hid his icons. Then we switched the function of his mouse buttons.
iamsmoothAug 18, 2010
One time at my university, someone forgot to log out of their account and the person that got a hold of this computer ended up dropping the guy out of all his classes.
amirbdAug 18, 2010
That is staggeringly messed up; it's not even funny. If these were impacted classes and the person could not re-enroll, then the prankster just threw a semester of someone's life out the window.
iamsmoothAug 18, 2010
No, I never said it was funny. Just another reason why it's so important to log out of your s**t before you leave.
sneschalmersAug 18, 2010
"Hey, don't you hate pants!?" - Homer Simpson
matthewdukeAug 18, 2010
In college, while you guys were doing these hilarious pranks in the computer lab, I was at the bar getting ripped and making out with girls.
vanderkeifAug 18, 2010
When you were getting ripped and making out with girls I was walking on the f**king moon.
eaziiAug 18, 2010
A: no, you probably didn't. B-Z: nobody gives a s**t.
darkshroudAug 18, 2010
While you were away at college many different men were using your bedroom as a waiting room.
anothersoldierAug 19, 2010
No, you were the guy in the back of the computer lab wishing you had friends to pull pranks on.
blydchyldAug 25, 2010
Now your taking orders at the drive though im driving my new Mercedes upto your window.
entroperAug 18, 2010
I wrote a program that runs as a windows service, and accepts local network connections. You can connect to it from your desktop, and make the CD tray eject, or sound the PC speaker. Usually we'd wait until the target was on the phone or deep in concentration.
therightcliqueAug 19, 2010
Yeah. I'm sure that really happened.
entroperAug 19, 2010
It's really a fairly trivial app to write. And it was educational; I now know more about sockets and interop programming in C#.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
the best you could come up with was posting someones love for pants. come on.
azwethinkweizmAug 18, 2010
Or drop them from all of their classes and send messages with racial slurs to all non-white professors.
True story at my school but I didn't partake in it. It caused a HUGE ruckus that the student systems now make it impossible to do that kind of stuff.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
bballfiend06Aug 19, 2010
At my school, we just left "Meatspin" on the screen, not as clever, but nothing beat seeing a reaction to anyone who turned it off
nerddtvgAug 17, 2010
At work we generally just turn on accessibility views with high contrast, huge text, and a tiny resolution. It really screws up their display, and with the right settings it can change their remembered window and icon positions. People learn quickly to lock their computers.
libertyfrogAug 18, 2010
Wow. You sound like a douche.
nerddtvgAug 18, 2010
It's not a permanent change or anything, nor is it something that they are going to have to explain to friends later that they didn't write online or might have issues with later.
frostekAug 18, 2010
It's not as bad as changing to a black background, font and windows theme.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Shift-Alt-PrintScr works nicely. Also, Win+U to open the accessibility settings is quite fun when you switch all the accessibility enhancements on. Confuses the hell out of people when they can't work out why their computer is describing everything to the using text-to-speech.
nerddtvgAug 18, 2010
I use the Print Screen method. It actually doesn't "turn on" the settings inside the Control Panel applet, so even when you open that it is all turned off and you can't fix it. You have to know the key combination to turn it back off.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Don't forget to reverse the right and left click functionality of the mouse, add long mouse trailers, put a link to rick roll in the "startup" folder in their start menu, crank the sound, change their facebook status to something appropriately inappropriate(depending on how you know them).
clippclopAug 18, 2010
also fun:
1) minimize everything
2) Screen shot
3) Set screen shot as background
4) Hide desktop icons and task bar
5) Hilarity ensues.
darkstar3333Aug 19, 2010
What about the people who have close to nothing on the desktop?
kylescousinAug 17, 2010
Also fun: gay pron gif as background.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Yes, because I'm sure a gay person would appreciate having a gay porn GIF as their wallpaper at work.
sgtseacowAug 18, 2010
Porn in the office is dangerous, which is why it is best kept outside. I had a boss who used to tape horrendous XXXXXXX porn on the passenger side of people's cars if they parked with the driver's side towards the office exit. People would drive all the way home without knowing why other motorists were point, laughing and, occassionally, vomitting.
lamiaconfitorAug 18, 2010
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anexanhumeAug 17, 2010
No wonder he never locks his computer, it must be a f**king nightmare to type that name in.
jkalAug 18, 2010
after locking a computer running XP does not require one to type their entire name to unlock it.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Everyone and their mother know that, yet he still gets 150 diggs. Its like a popularity contest and once people see something get dugg, they have to digg it to, to be part of the cool kids.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Man, you guys must be an absolute blast at parties.
getoffmybridgeAug 18, 2010
Now taking bets on how long checkdisk will take to finish!
merrickxAug 19, 2010
A network/computer name shows up there on certain version of windows. He would type his account name to log in... not to undermine the humor in your comment.
mrgerbekAug 17, 2010
And his staff had the FBI waiting for them.
neuralnetworkAug 18, 2010
Don't know why you got dugg down, but that's the best comment I've read all day :D
jaydub99Aug 18, 2010
You had just woken up when you read that, right?
nesttysanttaAug 17, 2010
ahahaha , and that's a good reminder :D
timbuc1Aug 18, 2010
Why no Windows 7?
hodorAug 18, 2010
My work is still planning to "upgrade" to Vista and not Windows 7.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Sucks...we're on IE8 w/ Office 2007, but most still use XP. Half of our IT department is on Win7 x64, and we're rolling it out next year (company-wide) with Office 2010 and IE9. No Vista.
darkstar3333Aug 19, 2010
Microsoft doesn't even suggest an XP to Vista upgrade path anymore.
martoqAug 18, 2010
Many corporate environments are still locked on XP because of old 3rd party applications.
darkstar3333Aug 19, 2010
Many corporations cannot figure out virtualization.
ruthlesspirateAug 18, 2010
No company wants to spend millions of dollars and man-hours to upgrade equipment, servers, programs and licenses, IS departments, etc. just because an OS isn't "cool" anymore.
rsterkenburgAug 18, 2010
Exactly the truth! If a computer has problems or comes due on the company's replacement cycle, then by all means train the user on a new OS and give them that instead. But to proactively upgrade the user from an old, industry supported and Microsoft supported OS to a new one just because it's newer, is a waste of money.
deathsquadxAug 18, 2010
^^^ 2 boring IT guys ^^^
darkshroudAug 18, 2010
Normally I would agree with you but XP is a security mess and upgrading away from XP means no more IE6 only.
pdaisaokAug 18, 2010
sssssss? You're hissing? Is he a silent movie villian?
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
I am helping to upgrade 380 machines from xp to 7.
XP is FAR superior to 7 in large environments. I can only imagine you made that comment because you've never used 7 on a domain. It is a **clusterf**k** of an enterprise OS.
default profiles are broken completely - it used to take two steps to customize default profiles. now it's an hour long process involving WIM or registry hacks (whichever you hate less)
MS seems to be trying HARD to kill SMB so things like redirecting folders to network shares have been made more complex with no apparent advantage.
network printers added using group policies cause log-on times to reach 5 minutes because UAC silently throws fits.
elevation is needed in the most random of places but not when it should be.
The list goes on, but it stands that 73% of fortune 500 companies are still using XP and at the rate we're going, we'll be re-deploying XP by october.
rsterkenburgAug 18, 2010
From my experiences, it sounds like you just haven't properly prepared for your 7 rollout. We're rolling out Windows 7 in an enterprise with over 1000 uses, doing all different things from word processing to AutoCAD to proprietary software, and with proper prep and end user training we are having NO problems. The network is secure and fast, the systems are secure and fast, and compatibility is no problem at all. I've never seen UAC bring up issues with anything involving a GPO, including printers. Are you installing a printer company's software on each machine or something crazy like that, or just connecting to a printer shared within the domain?
lelio98Aug 19, 2010
Agreed about the default profiles cluster-F, what a mess!
Haven't had the printer issue, yet... But we are running a 2008 R2 print server, so maybe that helps with the driver signing and whatnot.
7 seems alright, but I agree that generally M$ have broken a few of the nicer enterprise features they had. Anyone use Exchange 2010 yet? Seriously, we can't create mailbox users from AD? Seriously?
Closed AccountAug 21, 2010
s**t, NOT happy to hear about problems with default user profiles. We're on XP right now with 7 being our next step.
johnomazzAug 18, 2010
By keepign XP alive, they don't have to upgrade their hardware.
lelio98Aug 19, 2010
Getting a school district to proactively replace old computers on a refresh cycle is like getting them to replace ineffective teachers... Ain't gonna happen... Once they have sat there for a while, they won't be gone until they have died.
stevethepocketAug 21, 2010
The school my dad works at just upgraded to Office '07 because all the kids have it now and they couldn't get their files to work on the school computers. Still on Windows XP though, since they'd damn near have to upgrade the whole school at once and a lot of the classroom computers are almost as old as XP itself.
johnomazzAug 23, 2010
@steve oh god, I know the feeling. I have some 8-9 year old machines on campus and are slowly moving to Office 2010. Its sad.
7ajiAug 24, 2010
I just got a new workstation with Windows 7 Professional at work. It rocks!
shinkouAug 18, 2010
D'ohhh!
bnpaulsonAug 18, 2010
We have a bigger guy at work who left himself logged in once, we set the Windows start up sound to the first 12 seconds of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq9slakzti0. He has a good sense of humor and we all got a good chuckle out of it.
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worldofsmutAug 18, 2010
Wow. An ENTIRE office with no sense of humour.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
That was the best you could think of? Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
bnpaulsonAug 18, 2010
I guess we thought it was funny because he would hit the power button on his computer and then run off to get coffee, so it was on there for a couple weeks before he noticed. But then, we don't get out much.
netneutralityAug 18, 2010
Turn the screen upside-down if the graphics card supports it. That always evokes lulz.
zanthiusAug 18, 2010
Here's what we do:
1) Take a screen shot of the current desktop
2) paste that into mspaint, then flip horizontal and flip vertical
3) save as JPG and set as background
4) then flip the screen and lock the computer
5) move the lock screen out of the way
The person will come back and it will look like the screen is how he left it. But when I moves the mouse, the pointer will be upsidedown, and move backwards.
Great fun to be had
jantikAug 18, 2010
Just a fake "System Upgrade" screen shot can cause severe heartburn too: http://tinyurl.com/28vcg9c
friedjellyfishAug 18, 2010
A "thank you for installing Windows ME" would be worse.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Actually, save it as a BMP to prevent that halo effect around all the desktop icons.
vanderkeifAug 18, 2010
Installing Bonzi Buddy is much more demoralizing imo.
neutron7Aug 18, 2010
Blue screen of death screen saver from microsoft themselves.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897558.aspx
stevethepocketAug 21, 2010
I did this to a whole lab full of computers one day. No foolin'. Unfortunately though I didn't get to witness the reaction because I'd be the only person in the room with a working machine and obviously they'd know I did it.
doshindudeAug 18, 2010
Ctrl + Alt + Down arrow key FTW.
jeworldAug 18, 2010
Quick and effective!
sukanyetAug 18, 2010
WTF JUST HAPPENED
rpapi100Aug 18, 2010
I approve. Great ninjas think alike.
bonus points if you physically flip the victim's CRT Monitor (when available).
ruthlesspirateAug 18, 2010
Brix were just shat.
dankbuddzAug 18, 2010
Whhooooaaaa that's cool.
dmc1281Aug 18, 2010
While effective I must say this one person I worked with go so upset that they turned their monitor over to log in. We tried to tell him to log in and hit enter but you know that you are not logged in unless you use the mouse to click ok.
They kept working all day like that as well.
cosmicrAug 18, 2010
I pressed it and it did nothing?
dkrenderAug 18, 2010
You probably don't have an Intel graphics card.
digjamAug 19, 2010
You are probably using Mac
onioncommandoAug 19, 2010
I disabled these shortcuts. What now?
rahazAug 19, 2010
Try Cntrl-W.
antdudeAug 19, 2010
ATI video card FTW. :P
falconearAug 19, 2010
Yeah, they like this one at my work. Before I figured it out I had to reboot my computer because I didn't want to add insult to injury by asking for help to fix it.
brettbAug 18, 2010
In soviet Russia, computer lock you!
neonevermoreAug 18, 2010
Remember, Windows Key + L is your friend.
atarioAug 18, 2010
I once worked at a place where anyone who walked off and left their computer unlocked would find that they had emailed the whole company with a message having the subject "I love you" and an empty body.
haikufuAug 18, 2010
At our company, people email stuff to HR like "You look really hot in that dress today." They always respond with something funny.
noisymimeAug 18, 2010
We always offer a free round of drinks in the email and make the person pay up the next time we go to the pub. That's the price of security.
anaxaAug 19, 2010
We did this sort of thing in the Air Force...
Most commanders didn't think it was as funny as we did, though.
jaytbAug 18, 2010
Yeah, I remember, a long time ago, when we thought is was funny to prank my old boss, when he forgot to lock his computer. He was a guy, nearing his retirement. We got the girl from the Scary Maze prank (http://www.maniacworld.com/maze_game.htm) popping up when he was typing a fairly long letter. I thought he got a heartattack judging bij de way he looked when he jumped out of his chair, landing his butt on the floor and his reading glasses. Man, I've never seen anybody more pissed. The guy wasn't a joy to work with in the first place, but after our prank it certainly didn't improve.
arschgaudiAug 18, 2010
Did he fire you?
darkdudeAug 18, 2010
I want that wallpaper. Anyone have a link to it? :D
lorddiasAug 18, 2010
http://www.addletters.com/pictures/bart-simpson-generator/376528.htm
Clearly they used that, judging by the font and all. I don't see an option to change the image resolution. Perhaps they put a little photoshop to use? Also if you make the font too long it will overlap Bart, however in the image we seen the font is behind him.
hmyauhnoAug 18, 2010
Thx for link :)
djetaineAug 18, 2010
I just made one.
http://www.thebeerblog.net/bart_simpson/lock_computer.jpg
@lorddias, im not sure if they really did use photoshop on that addletters thing. That was a lot more work than i initially thought it was going to be. Lol.
eugooglieAug 18, 2010
Well I made one that's even higher res (1600x1200) so take that!
http://imgur.com/EZ1gh.jpg
eugooglieAug 18, 2010
No, this is your "Lock your f**kING COMPUTER" background...
http://imgur.com/pC7nv.jpg
I really need to do something more productive at work today!
djetaineAug 18, 2010
hey now! i was just trying to go with the most used screen resolution. My current screen res is 1920 but i figured id make it for the masses!
fearthefinAug 18, 2010
/obligatory comment about The Simpsons not being funny anymore
thecoffeeAug 18, 2010
No cares about that till fall.
qazwsAug 18, 2010
How does part get detention on every episode, its a mystery?
darkshroudAug 18, 2010
How is Bart still in Elementary School when he was born roughly in 1980.
nerobellumAug 18, 2010
If it's someone who isn't very computer literate, screenshot their desktop, then set it as the background. Hide the taskbar and icons. BAM. Before you know it, they'll be smacking the keyboard and picking up the mouse while clicking it like some kind of tv remote with a leash
stormkrowAug 18, 2010
Used to do this to the sales guys weekly.
Another fun one is to change the default sound for mail reception to a woman moaning then have everyone in the office bombard them with emails.
Fun stuff.
ctaboneAug 18, 2010
"Bart Simpson Chalkboard Generator"
http://www.addletters.com/bart-simpson-generator.htm
iridesceAug 18, 2010
thanks
heavystoneAug 18, 2010
Odd, it only did one row and left the rest of the chalkboard empty.
cityofcharlotteAug 18, 2010
You have to type like this. You have to type like this. You have to type like this. ........just repeat three short sentences.
heavystoneAug 18, 2010
Ah thanks.
rahazAug 19, 2010
Fail. The example didn't cut off part of the last sentence. Ruined it.
rydawg61Aug 18, 2010
Love the irony of it.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
We changed all of the text on a teacher's computer to Wingdings in the sixth grade. She was a bitch.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Weak piggy westerner computer open with always stupid idiot westerner so weak.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Can you want to the any way to understand the speak of English you?
vagrantwadeAug 18, 2010
WINDOWS KEY + L
I learned to use it my second day of my current job. My co workers would f**k your s**t up otherwise.
badrobot01Aug 18, 2010
Handy shortcut
ronintetsuroAug 18, 2010
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dscullinAug 18, 2010
Didn't know about Windows key + L. I'd always use Ctrl+alt+Delete => Enter
jackmiracleAug 18, 2010
Noob
warstrongAug 18, 2010
Noob
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
actually: windows + L is the noob way.
Closed AccountAug 19, 2010
or cntrl alt L if you're using gnome
jwm0zAug 18, 2010
Crrrrazy guys! At my old work you'd get goatse'd or lemonparty'd.
badrobot01Aug 18, 2010
Goatse'd?
mixeaoAug 18, 2010
please elaborate and provide links
jwm0zAug 18, 2010
goatse.cx lemonparty.org
jaydub99Aug 18, 2010
A lemon party? Why, that sounds delightful! I think I'll check out these links right now! And by right now, I mean in 2002.
jwm0zAug 18, 2010
I like to educate those that don't know.
parlo33Aug 18, 2010
Aint no lemon party without old dick
involverAug 18, 2010
also hai2u.com for the lulz.
tona107Aug 18, 2010
sourmath for the win.
Or lose I guess depending on how you look at it.
fallout22Aug 18, 2010
" You can't have a Lemon Party without an Old Dick!"
admdrewAug 18, 2010
i cried a little that you used those as verbs
jcimsAug 18, 2010
We used to change their desktop background to some smarmy picture of the Hoff all laid out in a leather thong or whatnot.
ron7852Aug 18, 2010
I must have worked with you.
jaydub99Aug 18, 2010
So that means you just happened to have a picture like that laying around. How... convenient.
bonzooznobAug 19, 2010
we regularly "Hoff" other employees that leave their machines unlocked...naked Hoff with the dog is the worst
docholiday22Aug 18, 2010
Print screen desktop, use the print screen as a wallpaper, hide all desktop icons and watch employees get pissed off when they can't open their files or applications from the desktop.
artworkz918Aug 18, 2010
oldest one in the book
bdigital24Aug 18, 2010
came here just to post that. might be the oldest one in the book, but it works every time (on someone new)
mannapcAug 18, 2010
What do you mean? There's no sort by penis!
lju1492Aug 18, 2010
I hate locking my computer ... one company I worked had it lock itself after 5 minutes.
It's my computer, so keep your damn hands off!!
nonymous666Aug 18, 2010
They made you buy and use your own computer?
/s
iv81Aug 18, 2010
format c: /autotest
davenp0rtAug 18, 2010
The best computer prank I ever did was to change the home page of every browser to smouch.net, set the screensaver to a screen shot of a BSOD which appeared after only one minute of inactivity, and changed the keyboard layout to something completely random.
daviz0Aug 18, 2010
in college I print screened the teachers desktop, set it as his background then locked the computer, moved the login window as far off screen it would go in the corner so it was not visible then pressed escape and moved it again, he never left his comp unlocked again after that.
another time I plugged a blue tooth device in to the back of a computer and controlled the cursor with my phone and the ict teacher thought the computer had been hacked, she kept trying to show the other teacher it but I would not move it when he was looking so she looked crazy, eventually on her third trip out the classroom a student from another class had told her phones could do it and she came storming in to check the usb slots but luckily my friend managed to remove it as she came back in.
maddonkeyAug 18, 2010
cool story bro
/s
worldofsmutAug 18, 2010
The boss's computer was used to send an email to the entire company telling them to go home half an hour early.
The email said "please don't reply to this email - I don't need the thanks".
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Now THAT is fantastic... It works on so many levels.
ronintetsuroAug 18, 2010
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artemzAug 18, 2010
i'm afraid to do that..... ;P
stephenjwzAug 18, 2010
I prefer to go into office apps and change the autocorrect to insert offensive words in place of common ones.
mattb123Aug 20, 2010
An oldie but goodie!
olie420Aug 18, 2010
We used to do the same, but with a Goatse pic...
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
Where I work if you leave your terminal unlocked you'll return as if nothing has happened, but in your sent items folder you'll find that you sent about 35 emails professing your love of c**k while you were away.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
sourc3Aug 18, 2010
Change ALL the bookmarks to the Rick Astley video while leaving the names unchanged. Takes a bit more work, but well worth it.
nascenttAug 22, 2010
Wouldn't be hard to script this for automation.
Just make a bat file to
copy %userprofile%\Favorites %userprofile%\FavoritesBackup
then have the script go through each file in %userprofile%\favorites
and replace the text with
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g
bnpaulsonAug 18, 2010
I guess we thought it was funny because he would come in and turn on his computer and then run off to get coffee, so it was on there for a couple weeks before he noticed. But then, we don't get out much...
mrdougAug 18, 2010
I want to know the rest of what "EXCITING" stands for...
EXcellence...
Creativity...
erohenAug 18, 2010
hopefully they changed his password before they locked his machine for him.
mkriss5681Aug 18, 2010
I left my PC unlocked and a coworker emailed my boss with just "I Love You" in the subject.
alexandercurtisAug 18, 2010
We use Macs here so I just move my mouse to the bottom left of the screen to lock.
Exposé ftw.
solistusAug 19, 2010
That's not Exposé, that's active screen corners. Exposé is the feature that allows you to move all open windows out of the way to see the desktop, or lay them out altogether or by app for easy selection. Windows accomplishes basically the same things with the Show Desktop button and windows key+tab. Exposé has nothing whatsoever to do with security or logging in or out of user accounts.
alexandercurtisAug 19, 2010
Exposé triggers my screensaver when I move the cursor to the bottom left. Thus, you have to type in username & password to get back in. Same effect as locking the computer.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
solistusAug 19, 2010
No, active screen corners triggers your screensaver.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
If it is a PC, just switch it to a left handed mouse. Left and right mouse keys are reversed.
scoot2006Aug 18, 2010
More fun to screenshot their desktop and set that as the wallpaper, hide the desktop icons, unlock the windows bar and put it up top then shrink it as small as it goes and set it to auto hide.
Depending on what type of application they have to save the screenshot it only takes about 30 seconds.
ebachervilleAug 18, 2010
We used to do that to our IT supervisor when he forgot to lock his PC also, but we would send out "very freindly" emails from his email... like telling then entire team to take the week off, saying everyone was getting huge salary increases etc.. setup bogus appointments etc.. he learned quickly.
cjmnewsAug 18, 2010
We change the victims color scheme to all Pink.
shozikuAug 18, 2010
for one girl I took a screenshot of her desktop, Windows 3.1. then I used VPIC to display the pic from the autoexec. She was showing me the problem saying, "See? look how fast windows starts"
and I said "hmmmm."
and she said "then my mouse is frozen in the middle of my screen and when I click anything windows restarts then everything works normal". Gotta love it. I let her have a weeks worth of it before I told her what I did.
morningloriiAug 18, 2010
She must've thought you were just the bees knees!
torpedoAug 18, 2010
How come barts feet and the eraser are in front of the bezel fo the screen?
matthewtheravenAug 18, 2010
There is a brown wood frame around the chalkboard in the original image. It looks like the bezel in this picture, but it's actually the frame around the chalkboard that you're seeing.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2010
How is babby formed?
tntbassAug 18, 2010
You know you don't need to have any access to anyone's computer to send out an email as them, right? Just do some SMTP injection directly into the mail server, and you can make it look like the email was sent out from anyone you choose. Most email systems are not setup to require authentication to connect to the SMTP server.
A good prank is doing something to their profile - aka, screenshot the desktop and place that as their background, removing all icons (or just remove a few, just for fun), or setting up multiple Outlook rules to duplicate their email.
So many better pranks out there to do than send an email as the person who didn't lock their computer.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
runningflame570Aug 19, 2010
There is a script on one of my company's servers that is able to send out mail to anyone, as being from anyone. It would be a relatively simple matter to figure out who actually sent it assuming someone knew it exists with all the logging in place, but I had quite a bit of fun sending out a few emails to one of my co-workers as God@$companyname
rsm33Aug 18, 2010
I think the real story here is that someone was proud of their new desktop wallpaper they just made, but needed a reason to tell people about it, so they took a picture of it and made up a story about "a boss in information security" who forgot to lock his computer and posted it on the internet.
What is next? A picture of a bathtub filled with ice and the story of how somebody woke up in it with no kidneys and note telling him to: "get to a hospital"?
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herculesAug 18, 2010
The sad thing is that not having a password protected screensaver is one of the easiest ways to lose valuable information in an organization.
Ah well.
dbuizertAug 18, 2010
Sad thing is, I bet half of his employees who handle sensitive assets have admin rights and probably violated one or multiple internal policies, but he has no clue it is going one since the Security report system isn't in place because they probably won't have an ISO27000 series in place
runningflame570Aug 19, 2010
You're assuming of course that they actually have reasonable policy controls.