Virus Prank

This will freak out your friends or whoever you do it to! They will think that their hard drive will get fried. It is completely reversable.

Virus Prank 2: http://www.instructables.com/id/Virus-Prank-2/

Step 1 Run the VIRUS

In the start menu, there should be something that says "Run". Click on that and type in "VIRUS" and press OK. An error message should come up with the title "VIRUS".

Comments

[dsams]

this is quite basic, you can create one by using notepad

[grundisimo]

Anyone who is even remotely intelligent could know that this is bogus... First off, Windows wouldn't type in all caps. Second, it wouldn't say "SHUT YOUR COMPUTER OFF RIGHT NOW AND TAKE IT TO A PROFESSIONAL TO PREVENT YOUR COMPUTER FROM NEVER WORKING AGAIN!". Third, if Windows did happen to display a message signaling the user of a virus, they would be able to hit okay.

[zapper067]

Make NoRun key on regedit and this prank canot be done

[khistenv]

what is print screen? how do you do step 2?

[fabsy333]

Print Screen is called: Print
Screen
SysRq.

Print Screen in a botten
that takes the WHOLE screen as an image.
In paint, and you've pressed Print
Screen
SysRq,

press Ctrl + V or right click and press Paste.
I hope that helps.

[NetReaper]

a button...

[marci24]

WHAT IS PRINT SCREEN?? sorry for caps letter my bad.

[fabsy333]

If you don't know what "Print Screen" is, it is the key that says: Print
Screen
SysRq.
it is RIGHT on top of the "Insert" key.
Happy now? Good!

[mkane]

Print screen is a button on your keyboard that takes a picture of the whatever is displaying on your screen. The buttons usually near the top right of your keyboard!
After you press that you can paste the picture of your screen into windows paint or something else that can display a jpeg file!

[jakrox07]

how do i erase all of the text after i pasted the screen in paint without messing up anything else?

[marci24]

what is print screen

[NetReaper]

paint over it...

[Gilrostwo]

It's easier to do this in an... easier... fashion, using batch, Java, even C++.... And that's hardly a realistic virus message.

[Jak1fan]

I could do this more realisticaly in notepad and make a .vbs file that says it better, and I can trust it.

[Gilrostwo]

Actually, I think batch would be best. The command prompt looks so dire, it'd scare the crap out of anyone I know. Try writing something like. TESTING RAM... RAM FAILED TESTING CPU... CPU FAILED TESTING GFX... GFX FAILED TESTING MAINBOARD... MAINBOARD FAILED ALL MAJOR HARDWARE CORRUPTED... ERROR ERROR ERROR WINDOWS IS CORRUPTED etc.

[LuciferTengu]

I did that at my high school a couple of years ago but I used netsend and put somthing like "Virus detected! Please reinstall operating system. (second line containing random codes and saying the MBR was erased)"

Though sadly vista and probably all later M$ OSs don't have that command anymore (I haven't look at Windows 7 yet though)

[Irock148]

7 has cmd

[reederda]

If you go to google and search "Download Netsend", then go to the link at lantalk.net they have one that works with Vista.

[LuciferTengu]

I tried that but you'd need to install it on all of the PCs you want to communicate with, you have to either pay for it or crack it, and it doesn't use the ominous command prompt.

[prankmaster109]

does this word on a apple?

[rahulbumwatt]

 Great file!

Really annoyed my mate! He almost through his laptop out of the window!

Ah, good times.

[Onkei]

Why don't you just make it run something that pops up in the event runner. So if they try to go on the internet it comes up saying something about a virus. Much more practical plus they would think it was their fault. say if it wasn't their computer.

[inventordude14]

  a nerd in my class freaked when he saw the message and couldnt close the "window" he then restarted his computer to find the same message the teacher was wicked mad and then yelled at him for ruining a computer

[x z i t]

WE ARE ALL NERDS ARENT WE? EVERYBODY ON INSTRUCATABLES

[ac7ss]

As long as you are using the screen shot, hide all of the icons that are really on the desktop as well.

[Earths_hope]

Or...

WINDOWS MAIN SYSTEM FAILURE...
REVERTING TO DOS MODE...
C:\ NOT FOUND...
ERROR 128 C DRIVE NOT FOUND...
EMERGENCY REBOOT RECOMMENDED...
EMERGENCY REBOOT RECOMMENDED...
EMERGENCY REBOOT RECOMMENDED...
EMERGENCY REBOOT RECOMMENDED...
and so on

[thinker]

hey shadowdragon
a much more effective thing to do is something i used to do in my school
if you open notepad
type in
x=msgbox("WARNING! A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED",vbCritical,"VIRUS")
and copy and past that about a bazillion times
then save as virus.vbs
or whatever you want to call it
then change the icon and copy and paste it over the items in the desktop
then everytime they try run something on the desktop (usually when they try open internet explorer or firefox) it runs that and displays the message
it doesnt harm anything on the computer at all
takes about 3 seconds to put all the icons back to normal
but it is an actual messagebox that pops up
and cos it says "vbcritical" it actually makes the sound a critical error makes when it opens
and cos youve copy and pasted it
whenever they close it
another one opens =]
for a good while anyways
or you cud have it as one of the programs that runs on "startup" of the computer
but that means it will bug you as well
and in school or office you might get told off for "editing the logon script"
whereas with my way they just sorta sigh and giggle a bit once they realise
but it still scares the bajeesus out of peoples

=D

Have Fun With This!!!!
=]

thinker
also known as Mong or El-Mongo

[Ausm]

or... you can write

do
x=msgbox("WARNING! A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED",vbCritical,"VIRUS")
loop

and it will go on forever in a very nice 1k package

[wangtrevor]

how do u stop this with out logging off or shutting the computer down

[Ausm]

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del or Delete to open up the task manager. Then click on the Applications tab, look for something that says vbsscript.exe or something along those lines, it should have a rather colorful cube as an icon. Then click on that and click on end task on the bottom, it'll take a couple seconds but it will go away. And if you can find the same thing on the Processes tab and click end task, it should end immediatly.

[shoyru_master_11]

For Vista and XP it is: wsscript.exe

[CameronC]

or put a shutdown command in startup... MUAHAHA

[irishjim68]

How can I link this script to shoudown.exe so that when the victim clicks the "OKAY" button, the shutdown command runs with a timer, so they think something sacary is really gonna happen?

[EatSomePie]

Sorry for bringing back posts an old 'ible, but you can link the .vbs script to "shutdown.exe" by adding these lines:


Dim timeinseconds
timeinseconds = (put a number in between these parantheses)
Set Wshshell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
Wshshell.run("C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\shutdown.exe " & timeinseconds)

[BaKerSkater19]

You could do that with C++.

[Boring_Jester]

thinker that is quite cool

[coltonapo18]

hey man i did this its so awesome! i made different messeges too! like one is "hi!" then you exit and its "whyd you do that?" and so on and so forth its so funny! thx thinker!

[mabnoblet]

cool, what do u type in notepad for it?

[DrWeird117]

Certainly are a thinker! : D

[thinker]

;]