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Cupholder.exe (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I have a folder of "pranks" like these from way back and they were harmless but sure enough they fire off modern anti virus software.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I made one called "crash_bandicoot.exe" that opened the windows calculator in an infinite loop.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had one of those, but it was just called putting something on the calculator key.

    See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDK8tMyCic

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The modern school equivalent of cheap pranks on computers isn't some elaborate virus, it's just pressing the "mail" or "calculator" keys on the keyboard for the guy next to you. Never personally witnessed anything more elaborate, though my classmate apparently distributed dubious batch files he wrote once

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I remember with mobile phones you'd have an app that was called shave or something like that.

    It would play the sound of a shaving apparatus and you'd run your phone across your cheek pretending to shave

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