There's a 1 in 50 chance that any copy text command cuts the text instead, and vice-versa.
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When you click the mouse button, the pointer position moves up to 10px in a random direction before applying the click.
I'd make Windows 11
Edit: Whoops, that's not harmless
I believe that specific site was called "Last Measure". It would also open up a bunch of shock sites...
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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.
It wasn't a file, it was a webpage. And it loaded infinite popups showing a dude's gaping anus, turned the volume up to 100%, and played a loop of "Hey everyone, I'm looking at gay porno!"
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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.
The mouse cursor switches between normal and inverted every 2 seconds.
Not so harmless to the guy living in Iran that got stoned.
Bootable USB with w11
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.
Switch the M and N keymaps
Also delete and enter
Delete is the one we use to remove the character in front of the cursor, amiright? I feel like enter and backspace is more havok for the common keyboard user, but iv no idea for programmers and such.
yeah sorry had a 6am brainfart and meant backspace. But, on the other hand, they'd expect that one....
How harmless are we talking? I'm thinking of one that randomly "locks" the next file you try to open that was last accessed over 30 days ago. It prompts you with "File locked by last user, please enter username/email and password"
No matter what you enter, it unlocks the file.
Then the next time it triggers, it prompts you again, but blocks you from using the same username and password.
Rinse and repeat while the user keeps giving you all their user names and passwords over time.
I did this in high school, it was just a basic script that spawned a warning dialog box (the kind thats always on top) that just said you can't close this, part of the script action was making tge task scheduler check every few seconds if the script was running... If it wasn't then run it.
Since I was making the task scheduler do the checking it meant even if you tried to task manager force close the script it would just open again in a few seconds, it was not a permanent task it was a temporary one and every opening of the script would reset that task so basically the only way to get rid of it was to restart the computer as that would clear the task.
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