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  • C chandu004

    once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.

    Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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    Ray Cassick
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    So what you really did was write a trojan horse. Great.... Did you spend much time attending that college after that?


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    • C chandu004

      once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.

      Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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      Justin Perez
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      I think you are lucky you didn't get kicked out of school.

      I get all the news I need from the weather report - Paul Simon (from "The Only Living Boy in New York")

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      • C chandu004

        once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.

        Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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        chandu004 wrote:

        we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon.

        Don't you call it as Trojan[^]?

        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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        • J Justin Perez

          I think you are lucky you didn't get kicked out of school.

          I get all the news I need from the weather report - Paul Simon (from "The Only Living Boy in New York")

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          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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          Justin Perez wrote:

          I think you are lucky you didn't get kicked out of school.

          Or the Head of the Department was also victimized by him after his booty with the email and passwords being successful. :-D

          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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          • C chandu004

            once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.

            Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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            Pete OHanlon
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            The best Stupid PC Trick I saw was available from sysinternals (back in the day). They had a screensaver that emulated the old NT Blue Screen of Death. Not very clever, but great fun.

            Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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              So what you really did was write a trojan horse. Great.... Did you spend much time attending that college after that?


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              chandu004
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              it was only a two day show, and we removed the application(not the database) from all the systems.

              Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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              • J Justin Perez

                I think you are lucky you didn't get kicked out of school.

                I get all the news I need from the weather report - Paul Simon (from "The Only Living Boy in New York")

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                Jerry Hammond
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                Justin Perez wrote:

                I think you are lucky you didn't get kicked out of school.

                I think they're lucky something worse than getting booted from the school didn't happen to them

                “If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.”-Alfred P. Sloan

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                • P Pete OHanlon

                  The best Stupid PC Trick I saw was available from sysinternals (back in the day). They had a screensaver that emulated the old NT Blue Screen of Death. Not very clever, but great fun.

                  Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                  Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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                  Pete O`Hanlon wrote:

                  They had a screensaver that emulated the old NT Blue Screen of Death.

                  It is anyway a cute innovation. Isn't it? :)

                  Vasudevan Deepak Kumar Personal Homepage Tech Gossips

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                  • C chandu004

                    once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.

                    Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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                    NormDroid
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                    chandu004 wrote:

                    Suggestion to the members:

                    Suggestion to you, please post to Suggestions forum.

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                    • C chandu004

                      once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.

                      Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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                      We created a fake command prompt for the BBC micro, many years ago, that could survive all forms of soft reset and would respond to input with a randomly selected response like "Yawn, Not today please I'm tired." or "Are you sure you really want me to do that?". The sneaky part was that we used the *TV command do mess up the vertical hold on all the monitors and then fixed it by adjusting the hardware controls on the monitors themselves so when they finally figured it out and hard reset the machines the V-Sync would go beserk. Cruel but side splittingly funny at the time especially when the victims were a bunch of year 7 (first year of secondary school) getting one of their first computer lessons with a rather scatter brained teacher. To top it off when all hell broke loose she was completely at a loss and came to find us, trying not to die laughing in the next room, to ask for help. Which we gladly gave and took the credit for with almost straight faces.:laugh:

                      Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.

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                      • J Jerry Hammond

                        Justin Perez wrote:

                        I think you are lucky you didn't get kicked out of school.

                        I think they're lucky something worse than getting booted from the school didn't happen to them

                        “If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.”-Alfred P. Sloan

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                        Justin Perez
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                        Jerry Hammond wrote:

                        I think they're lucky something worse than getting booted from the school didn't happen to them

                        Good Call. Isn't stuff like that illegal in the states now?

                        I get all the news I need from the weather report - Paul Simon (from "The Only Living Boy in New York")

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                        • N NormDroid

                          chandu004 wrote:

                          Suggestion to the members:

                          Suggestion to you, please post to Suggestions forum.

                          WPF - Imagineers Wanted Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath

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                          chandu004
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                          sorry, that was my default text as my signature. i forgot to remove it. and for your suggestion,

                          norm .net wrote:

                          Suggestion to you, please post to Suggestions forum.

                          i have already posted it.

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                          • J Justin Perez

                            Jerry Hammond wrote:

                            I think they're lucky something worse than getting booted from the school didn't happen to them

                            Good Call. Isn't stuff like that illegal in the states now?

                            I get all the news I need from the weather report - Paul Simon (from "The Only Living Boy in New York")

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                            Dalek Dave
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                            Stupidity takes many forms, but just I remember an old Tech Teacher saying to me "Never trust a strange Computer". I thought it odd at the time (early 80's) but it seems pertinant today.

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                            • C chandu004

                              sorry, that was my default text as my signature. i forgot to remove it. and for your suggestion,

                              norm .net wrote:

                              Suggestion to you, please post to Suggestions forum.

                              i have already posted it.

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                              Thanks for taking time for actioning my suggestion and suggesting in the suggestions forum.

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                              • P Pete OHanlon

                                The best Stupid PC Trick I saw was available from sysinternals (back in the day). They had a screensaver that emulated the old NT Blue Screen of Death. Not very clever, but great fun.

                                Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                                Pete O`Hanlon wrote:

                                The best Stupid PC Trick I saw was available from sysinternals (back in the day).

                                It's still here. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/BlueScreen.mspx[^]


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                                • C chandu004

                                  once in our college days, we simulated one popular chatting messenger. we took care of the lookand feel, menuitems, buttons and also its icon. we installed it in all the machines, and created a reumor that, internet chatting is available in all of the machines in the computer Lab. all guys and gals started opening the software(messenger), input their emailid and password, login only to see the message like, server is busy, please try after some time. obviously, at the end of two days, we had the database of all their emailids and passwords.

                                  Suggestion to the members: prefix your main thread subject with [SOLVED] if it is solved. chandu.

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                                  soap brain
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                                  The stupidest PC trick I've ever done is to take one outside and plough into it with an axe. Then I dumped it into a bathtub full of sulfuric acid.

                                  Sometimes the loser kids are the coolest to hang around with. But ONLY sometimes. *sigh* 'Unique' is just an original collection of unoriginal ideas. - R.H.J.

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                                    The stupidest PC trick I've ever done is to take one outside and plough into it with an axe. Then I dumped it into a bathtub full of sulfuric acid.

                                    Sometimes the loser kids are the coolest to hang around with. But ONLY sometimes. *sigh* 'Unique' is just an original collection of unoriginal ideas. - R.H.J.

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                                    Did it help? BDF

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                                    • B Big Daddy Farang

                                      Did it help? BDF

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                                      ghle
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                                      Windows? ;P

                                      Gary

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                                        We created a fake command prompt for the BBC micro, many years ago, that could survive all forms of soft reset and would respond to input with a randomly selected response like "Yawn, Not today please I'm tired." or "Are you sure you really want me to do that?". The sneaky part was that we used the *TV command do mess up the vertical hold on all the monitors and then fixed it by adjusting the hardware controls on the monitors themselves so when they finally figured it out and hard reset the machines the V-Sync would go beserk. Cruel but side splittingly funny at the time especially when the victims were a bunch of year 7 (first year of secondary school) getting one of their first computer lessons with a rather scatter brained teacher. To top it off when all hell broke loose she was completely at a loss and came to find us, trying not to die laughing in the next room, to ask for help. Which we gladly gave and took the credit for with almost straight faces.:laugh:

                                        Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.

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                                        ghle
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                                        Matthew Faithfull wrote:

                                        mess up the vertical hold on all the monitors

                                        Gotta love it! :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

                                        Gary

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                                          Windows? ;P

                                          Gary

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                                          Big Daddy Farang
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                                          There's little doubt that the axe would have helped Windows. Probably never run better. I was curious if doing this PC trick helped Ravel. Did it make him feel better for having done it, that sort of thing. BDF

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