I don’t remember the details but my mom’s first cousin called me once to fix her computer when I was a teenager.
No matter what she typed it came out as, “I AM FUCKING GAY!”
Seems like all I had to do was type “stop”.
A virus that changes Windows' sticky keys to only requiring two taps of the shift key.
That poor guy that thought he accomplished it by just having a virus that changed peoples files to pictures from Clannad but got arrested for copyright.
Like genue wishing this one.
I had one guy in the late 90s at my HS who made a program that copied itself onto every directory on the computer at startup. It was a .com file and if you ran it it would use the PC speakers to play a tone increasing in volume and pitch until it was unbearable. You had to do a hard boot to end it.
I also remember the Form virus that made the PC speakers make a sound each time you pressed a key. Can't remember if it did anything else.
I believe that specific site was called "Last Measure". It would also open up a bunch of shock sites...
When I worked at an MSP in early 2000s they would “prank” new hires with a site that did this. It would keep creating popups so you couldn’t close them. That stopped after customers heard it. More horrid graphical “pranks” replaced it of course.
Depending on you definition of harmless, I'd randomly replace one character every 1000 with an alternative version, newlines from crlf to lf, spaces, even some printable characters have similar options in other languages
A virus that replaces the normal space with a random one of similar space characters that all look normal to the end user but would fuck up programming.
One that replaces tab with 4 spaces.
On somethingawful back in the day if you were on any one page on their forums for more then about 20 minutes, a audio clip would play that said something like "HEY EVERYBODY I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO"
Instant flashback to the MSN Messenger virus where you could remotely open your friends CD-drive
That one got my mom once and she freaked out at the neighbor kid because he 'knew computers' so it must have been him.
theres used to be a DOS batch script line you could put into a windows startup that pipes the video output into the keyboard input, immediately crashing the machine. i believe this was patched after windows 7.
Im afraid to post my obnoxious virus idea as I don't want mailboxes filled with job offers from microsoft and other big tech.
I'll call it Windows 11.
There's a 1 in 50 chance that any copy text command cuts the text instead, and vice-versa.
«I’m watching porno» - not porn. This was around y2k
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