• pancakes@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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      5 hours 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.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      Whenever someone forgot to log out the terminal at university, we “fixed” their “.login” file by adding a command that listed all files, followed by a " … deleted", and logging the user out again. One could easily see that the deletion was just fake, because the next time one logged in, all those files were listed again…