Petty SabotageI once put magnets on my brothers collection of ZX81 cassettes, so when he attempted to play them, they were full of errors and yet apparently undamaged. Can you beat that? Tell us your tales of petty sabotage.
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chthonic, Wed 4 May 2005, 10:59)
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Computers again...Found this lovely bit of busted code in Windows 95 and 98. It's really great for sabotaging co-workers who are on a network.
Assume your victim has file and printer sharing installed, and has shared the C: drive; or fiddle his computer so his C: drive is shared.
From another computer, connect to his drive; say, your drive X: is his drive C:.
Open a command window and type:
dir x:a???????*.*
(that's seven hooks and a star dot star after the letter a). His computer will crash. Hard.
Works with all variants of Windows 95 and Windows 98. Windows ME, it puts up a blue screen saying the server process has crashed and asks if you want to restart it.
After I discovered this in '96, I told Microsoft about it. They never fixed it.
(, Sat 7 May 2005, 1:35, Reply)
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