Newton virus: gets a designer desperate
(don’t get desperate about your speakers, there is no sound in this video)
Hilarious “virus”, which actually doesn’t harm your files…it just makes you crazy!
As I’ve read on YouTube comments, this program uses the in-built motion sensor Macs have (to prevent crashes or something I think) to create the effect.
Any other pranks to play on your working pals? besides unplugging the keyboard or mouse (or changing the plugs between 2 computers…I love that one :P)
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Posted by The Ad Mad on March 12th, 2008,
on Design.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Yes … that is a good one.
A prank I used to like to play …
1/ Do a screen capture of someone’s computer when they are out for lunch.
2/ Use a photo editing program to turn it upside down.
3/ Put the copy of the picture on their hard drive.
4/ Boot a knoppix disk or other bootable distro like Puppy Linux and open the graphics file and make it full screen.
When they get back from lunch their desktop looks the same but is upside down. Keys do not work. When they reboot, the knoppix or puppy CD in their machine will boot and give them a linux desktop with none of their stuff. After a while they notice the CD is booting and remove it. Causes a panic for a while since they figure its a virus attack. Everything back to normal when they remove the CD.
I never admitted to being the one that did it.
Ian
March 12th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
That’s a good one too…it seriously can get me desperate when I need to finish something and can’t get to it!
Thanks for the instructions! hehe!