I remembered back in the day, there was a virus where a small cat appeared on the screen and chase your mouse cursor. If it caught your mouse cursor, the computer would crash. It did no other damage. It was great fun.
On Linux we have a harmless version of that: Oneko.
Might just have to install this on the work computer today!
I did this once and it was quite funny. But because I work with text and the cat blocks the characters behind it, it got also annoying.
When you’re white hat, but you feel a little silly sometimes
Chaotic good.
oh man. back in school we made a lot of dumb shit like this. friend got a box of 128mb usb sticks with erroneous branding and we put autorun ‘viruses’ that just spammed popups, opened the cd drive, played weird sounds, etc.
same day as we left them in various places in the school there was an announcement not to use “fake usb sticks” found in the building because they have viruses
Were you vacationing in Iran in 2008-09 by any chance?
Funny little viruses like playing sounds, opening CD drives, and dismantling the industrial infrastructure of a nations nuclear program.
I don’t understand this reference I’m stux
Back when Iran has been actively developing a nuclear program (they claimed it was for power plants), the US has infiltrated the uranium enrichment facility by secretly delivering a malicious USB stick that was then put into a computer and caused centrifuges to break by overriding the speed settings.
Oh I’ve heard of stuxnet it was just a joke hence the “I’m stux” part. But this is good for those who aren’t as aware thanks!
Ah, I see!
looks in Task Manager
“What the hell is ‘suspicious.exe?’”
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