Name Your Best PC Prank

Stiffler2

Name your best pc prank.


I'll get this started :

on my mates parents pc i edited their host file :

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

which acts like a local DNS server

I entered :


www.google.ie - 192.168.1.1 ( this IP is fake for this purpose )


When his parents came back to the pc everytime they opened up google it re-directed them to a brazilian porno site.

Mate was mortified for ages coz his parents thought and probably still do think that he was looking up brazilian scat porn on their pc.


Name your best PC prank

AngryBollix

fackoff.com

Mr. Presentable

Screen shot of desktop saved as jpg.

Hide all desktop icons and move taskbar to top with autohide set. Set screen shot as wallpaper

CardBordWindow

Took a screenshot of a colleague's desktop, and set it as the background. Then deleted some of his desktop shortcuts.

Also, flipped the screen on my sister's laptop. She's not the most computer savvy, and couldn't turn it back for ages.

kylith

Take screenshot of desktop and set it as the desktop background. Then select 'Hide Icons'.

Duckworth_Luas

Once I balanced a mates computer on a door that was left slightly ajar.

When he open the door it fell down and split his head apart.

He's dead!

AngryBollix

I put a redtube clip of three porn stars **** as my mates ringtone once.

Seachmall

Back in the Bebo days a friend of mine wanted a script that would spam everyone on his friends list.

I wrote one for him and he used it for spamming stupid **** but on the third time it spammed "I'm a massive faggot with no friends who needs to spam everybody".

It wouldn't work after the third time.

Good times.

The Snipe

Made a batch file that disables the mouse, keyboard, internet, and just about everything else too.. God I was a ****..

He still isn't talking to me after that.

Mr. Presentable

I was asked to look at a PC once wherein the CD tray opened every time the Tab key was pressed. Some wiseacre had created a hotkey shortcut. Funny though

hooradiation

I once convinced someone that there was a brigade made of PC's that roamed hither and yon, setting the world to rights.

Boy, that got out of hand.....

John Doe1

This is what you all look like

leviathon

I went to hold open the door for my girlfriend, but at the last second I thought hey this is the 21st Century so I let her open it herself.

So very PC

Blikes

Screenshot of Desktop, then kill the Explorer process! fun!

Ghandee

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Once I balanced a mates computer on a door that was left slightly ajar.

When he open the door it fell down and split his head apart.

He's dead!

Would have thanked tis twice if possible!

Take a bow sir!

Had to actually show this post to a few of my work colleagues, and they all had a great laugh at it too!

Bravo!

LumpyGravy

Could call it a prank or sabotage, but took a floppy disk apart and put a bunch of ground up match heads inside, glue the striking surface bit on the ring that holds the platter and then watch unsuspecting user's floppy drive go up in flames.

D

ctrl+alt+down_arrow

AnonoBoy

Back in the 90's when those evolving, rotating shape screensavers were popular I undid all the settings on mind until it was just a white square moving very slowly around. Then I told a work mate that I got it from a retro 80's screensaver site. He spent ages looking for it. I was mildly amused for several minutes.

hardbackwriter

Ghandee wrote: »

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Once I balanced a mates computer on a door that was left slightly ajar.

When he open the door it fell down and split his head apart.

He's dead!

Would have thanked tis twice if possible!

Take a bow sir!

Had to actually show this post to a few of my work colleagues, and they all had a great laugh at it too!

Bravo!

when I first saw the thread title, I immediately thought , politically correct pranks , interesting , then I said , don't be silly , PC people don't have a sense of humour

Odaise Gaelach

I changed the boot-up chime on a housemates's Windows 7 laptop from the usual five second tinkle sound to the entire two-and-a-half minute Neighbours theme from the 80s. He wasn't impressed.

GAAman

Friend A is a tech student, Friend B is a uni student. Friend A uses Friend B's login details to use the uni computer labs. I am at the back of the lab and she is at the front. I use the netsend command to send her a big officially worded popup message along the lines of:

"It has been brought to our attention Friend B, that you have given your login details to non University of Ulster students. This is against our code of conduct which you signed when enrolling and as such your academic grades have been reset to zero. Your status as an active student has been rescinded. By clicking OK you accept this official reprimand and do not wish to appeal.

Yours, UU Tech Dept"

Now on the netsend you have to click ok so she had no choice. She then logs off the computer gets up and all but sprints out the door

frag420

A little of topic....... Does anyone remember sourpatch.org?? It was a hyperlink one would send someone and when opened it would have a short clip of something gross. It kept moving about the screen. Everytime you tried to x it it would move. Only way to fix it was to force shut down the computer.

Dies anyone know of any similar links/sites as really wanna get back at my friend for killing my laptop!!

Cheers!!

Wossack

Hide everything on the desktop bar the icon for 'My Computer', and rename it to "My Computer 46"
Create a batch file, call it My Computer
inside, just a single word - 'logoff'
change icon for the batch to that of a normal My Computer
now copy this fake My Computer over and over again, to fill the desktop..

Can do other stupid things too with scheduled tasks and powershell scripts. Eject the cdrom every 20 mins for example :P

Dun laoire

Not a prank and nor did this happen to me but i still laugh when i think about the time a mate of mine who was browsing porn went into something obviusly full of viruses. It turned the mouse arrow thing into a cock and pair of balls.

token101

When I was a student in UK, my housemate used to send emails to the rest of the house about variously stupid stuff, like someone had a left a plate on the table, a cup was on the living room floor, etc, etc, etc. Got to the stage where I was getting 4/5 a day.

So he left on his laptop one morning as he talked to 'pops' on the phone and I installed my wireless mouse. I told my other housemate and we sat next to him in the living room, 'using my laptop', for about an hour watching his brow furrow.

He started saying he'd had the laptop fixed recently and thought somebody might be hacking his computer for his 'data', as he had (not) seen on Crimewatch. He even asked would the neighbours be able to hack in. Housemate told him he thought they might, he should go check the lights on the router, as he'd heard that if they were flashing it meant there was 'unauthorised access on the network' and that was the security warning. We lived with 5 people and I told one of the girls when she got home. She played along aswell and said same thing had happened her. What does dip**** do? Doesn't google it to see if any of this is even remotely plausible, calls into the guy next door, who was in his late 40s, a regular Tennants drinker, and hadn't ever even been on a computer, let alone hacked anything, and asks has he been stealing internet. Cue getting the door banging in his face after being told to f*** off and being called a stupid ****.

The emails never stopped so I used to just reply with screaming porn links.

I told him pissed one night at the end of the year and he thought it was 'well uncool mate'. I half heartedly apologised as I laughed. On reflection I should have remotely accessed his laptop and started really freaking him out by typing messages for him on Notepad or something. But that's a bit too far I suppose.....

Blikes

token101 wrote: »

When I was a student in UK, my housemate used to send emails to the rest of the house about variously stupid stuff, like someone had a left a plate on the table, a cup was on the living room floor, etc, etc, etc. Got to the stage where I was getting 4/5 a day.

Sounds like a bit of a douche, You should have done the head split open by falling computer gag!

Spacedog

In Carlow IT about 10 years back, folks used to brazenly looks up porn on the library PCs and in labs. Got a couple of classic pranks pulled as a result. One of the seniors in compsoc showed us an exploit to send novell net send messages as the Computer Services Dept.

One day seeing a lad looking up porn in the library, we sent him a popup message with the following...

"You have been detected viewing offensive or indecent content on your account, your computer access privileges will be suspended for the next 2 weeks. please report to the Computing Services Dept. office with your student card."

As he got the message, he was stunned for a second, before logging off, picking up his bag and jacket and going to the Admins office with his student card in hand, ready to confess his indiscretion.


_______________________________________________


Soon after were were in a spare lab (about half full as the library was packed), and again, there was another lad in the front row lookin up porn. I was with a friend and said to him, check this out... i walked up to the row behind him and stood up on the desk...

...then manually turned on the overhead data projector on the celing. the guy was using the PC that lecturers use to demo code to the lab! had he bothered to look up past his screen, he would have seen a giant image of his live screen on the wall 2m in front of him. he never looked up though, the whole room was howling laughing tho.

good times.

stupidusername

Token you should have done that notepad thing! Woulda been great

Stiffler2

frag420 wrote: »

A little of topic....... Does anyone remember sourpatch.org?? It was a hyperlink one would send someone and when opened it would have a short clip of something gross. It kept moving about the screen. Everytime you tried to x it it would move. Only way to fix it was to force shut down the computer.

Dies anyone know of any similar links/sites as really wanna get back at my friend for killing my laptop!!

Cheers!!

Lol - i think the rick roll app still does that.

Downlinz

I used to install teamviewer remote access software on Library computers in UL then me and a friend would take a comp within watching distance and start sending rude messages to their friends after they had logged on to facebook.

They were in disbelief that words were typing themselves.

token101

stupidusername wrote: »

Token you should have done that notepad thing! Woulda been great

Yea we had planned a class one where we would just repeat back stuff he'd said around the house and comment on his clothes/food to show the house was bugged. We were going to start making him go around the house looking for them! But we thought he'd never believe it, or worse call the cops and we'd get done for wasting police time!

He started getting on peoples nerves with the emails and racist comments against a local guy, so we used to wind him up a fair bit, and he did not get the humour. He freaked out once when my housemate said his mam rang, which she actually did, and left a message that his car had been stolen by chavs and sold to the Irish gypsies for scrap, which she didn't! Anybody else would laugh and brush it off as messing. But he rang her straight away and when he realised he was messing and the car was fine, he started freaking out :rolleyes:. He was a ****** eejit like. Needless to say he doesn't stay in touch.

Fluorescence

My best PC prank is called Steve. Thanks for asking

ImpossibleDuck

Nothing too elaborate or high-tech but effective none the less.

My friends gf asked could she use his laptop when he was away, he said yeah and left. She went for a shower, so I went on it and left a webpage looking at engagement rings open, but minimised. She never mentioned it in front of me but I hope it was brought up at some point between them.

Nothingbetter2d

i once installed a screensaver that looks like your pc just had a bsod on my friend's laptop.... it drove her mad for about a week thinking i broke her laptop

Maximus Alexander

Mr. Presentable wrote: »

Screen shot of desktop saved as jpg.

Hide all desktop icons and move taskbar to top with autohide set. Set screen shot as wallpaper

I did this one on a co-worker a few months back. Great reaction

Orando Broom

Switched two letters on a colleagues keyboard. Keyboard was replaced.

johndoe99

years back in college, some old PCs were being sold off. So i added an INI file to each PC one day after classes. I included details of who to contact in case of a computer fault, i added the name of a lecturer and his mobile number, i didn't like and a picture of him that i snapped covertly with a webcam.

It was hilarious

RichieC

i typed i liek bums on my friendz facebook ;D

Ishmael

Didn't do this one myself but thought it was fairly mean / funny. Create a batch file with the command "shutdown -r -t 0" and put this in the users startup folder (windows xp). Watch as the machine reboots every time the user logs on. Part of the genius of it is that it only affects a single user if you use the startup folder in their profile. Anyone else will be able to log on successfully.

The guy this was done to ended up getting the OS re-installed.

Mrs Garth Brooks

Ctrl + Alt + down arrow

Press all those three buttons together at the same time

MarkR

Put a program in the start up for various people in my course. Was that old one where it asked do you want to uninstall windows. They it looked like it uninstalled everything.

That and netsend commands telling colleagues their computer was overheating and about to explode. Never saw an office chair move so fast....

Squaredude

Ishmael wrote: »

Didn't do this one myself but thought it was fairly mean / funny. Create a batch file with the command "shutdown -r -t 0" and put this in the users startup folder (windows xp). Watch as the machine reboots every time the user logs on. Part of the genius of it is that it only affects a single user if you use the startup folder in their profile. Anyone else will be able to log on successfully.

The guy this was done to ended up getting the OS re-installed.

Did one similar to this except I pointed their browser to the batch file and set it to kick in after 30 seconds.

Agricola

All the computers in my college library had a sticker with an ID number on the monitor. This ID was unique identifier for that workstation on the college network. This allowed ya to use the netsend command to freak people out with random popups. I once sent a message to a guy sitting in front of me saying I was the Network Admin and that his account had been flagged up for accessing pornography and that he had been instructed to immediately come to the computer services department. The look of horror on his face was priceless. He then packed up his stuff and left Never found out of he actually went down there though!

vetstu

Me and a friend were in the Health Sciences Library in UCD and I copped a way to get into google out of the library system on the computers, and that they had speakers. Bit silly for library computers. Anyway I cobbled a page on a free host with a screenshot of the UCD homepage.
Linked the image to a sound file from a text to speech site.
"Warning, pornographic material is prohibited on library computers"
on a loop.
Did it on two or three and sat in one of the study rooms with a view of two of them.
People going pure red and not knowing where to go, most of them medical or nursing birds, and us pissing ourselves laughing in the soundproof room.
It was better than studying anyway.

There were boys examining them all week after that.
Never had the balls to do it again.

actuallylike

In college (DIT), went into the autocorrect options of Microsoft Word and made it so every time DIT was typed it would change to DCU. I'd say quite a few college reports got a few strange looks.

Also, use sound recorder to record the' text to speech' to say something (offensive stuff usually works). In control panel, sounds, make it so every time something like a window minimises, it plays. Did that on the tills in my old job for whenever a naggon of the cheapest vodka was scanned. Robotic voice, "SCAB!"

robman60

Dun laoire wrote: »

It turned the mouse arrow thing into a cock and pair of balls.

It's called the cursor, jeeezzz

kirving

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Ctrl + Alt + down arrow

Press all those three buttons together at the same time

Webpage just scrolls?! Graphics card ftw.

Spacedog

installed VNC server on friends PC and started moving his mouse from another room after he got out of the shower wearing a towel. he was listening to MP3s while drying off. of I rewinded the track a couple of seconds to get his attention..

...then started moving his mouse to the desktop to his huge folder of guitar tab files he had been collecting. I selected the folder and pressed shift+delete

"Are you sure you want to permanently delete the folder 'guitar tabs' and all it's contents? [yes] [no]"

I moved the cursor slowly between the 2 options bafore hearing him in the next room screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

he was pissed, lol

Nothingbetter2d

Spacedog wrote: »

installed VNC server on friends PC and started moving his mouse from another room after he got out of the shower wearing a towel. he was listening to MP3s while drying off. of I rewinded the track a couple of seconds to get his attention..

...then started moving his mouse to the desktop to his huge folder of guitar tab files he had been collecting. I selected the folder and pressed shift+delete

"Are you sure you want to permanently delete the folder 'guitar tabs' and all it's contents? [yes] [no]"

I moved the cursor slowly between the 2 options bafore hearing him in the next room screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

he was pissed, lol

lol do that on your mother's pc.... when she is afk open up loads of lesbian porn links when your dad goes to use the pc, using your laptop, just make sure your in the room to watch the awkwardness between the couple.

Local-womanizer

In computer class in secondary school one of the lads in the class clicks a shady looking desktop icon, the screen goes mad flashing with a cock on it. All we heard from the computer was "SMALL PENIS ALERT!!!!WARNING!!!" and alarms going.

He panicked and tried clicking the pop up box that said close but it kept moving on him. Eventually it let him click close but a new verbal warning sounds "WARNING, THIS MAN HAS A SMALL PENIS!!!"

Fun times.

Nothingbetter2d

Local-womanizer wrote: »

In computer class in secondary school one of the lads in the class clicks a shady looking desktop icon, the screen goes mad flashing with a cock on it. All we heard from the computer was "SMALL PENIS ALERT!!!!WARNING!!!" and alarms going.

He panicked and tried clicking the pop up box that said close but it kept moving on him. Eventually it let him click close but a new verbal warning sounds "WARNING, THIS MAN HAS A SMALL PENIS!!!"

Fun times.

that guy was you wasn't it? :rolleyes: