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[VirtualLarry]

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Ultimate corporate time-waster.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'm not proud of this but this is what I did about 16 years ago:

Guy in office gives me his external drive for virus scanning.

I open the drive to take a cursory look at what it contained. There was work stuff and there was a movies/TV series folder downloaded from torrents. Size was tons of gigs (more than 20GB if I recall correctly). I figured it would be awkward asking him if I could copy that folder (hey, what you doing looking at my folders for. I gave it to you for virus scanning!)

So I make a batch file:

@ECHO off
echo Scanning for viruses...
(silent copy his torrents folder to my laptop HDD with xcopy)

He kept checking back from time to time and I kept showing him the CMD window with that message.

When the copying was done, I used a command line virus scanner (I think Sophos) to do a quick scan of his drive which took maybe 10 minutes.

Most fruitful IT work ever!

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's actually pretty funny. Could have some fun messing with IT colleagues with that too. If they left a PC they're working on updating for real and it finishes, just go and run that on it.

We used to prank each other all the time on help desk if we left our PC unlocked. This would have been lot of fun. I used to write some quick batch scripts and run them in full screen. Just random made up errors like "System failure. All your data is lost. You must reinstall windows." Some were obvious fake but it was always fun to see their WTF reaction. Classics like taking screenshot and setting it as desktop and hiding everything was fun too.

Pranks like that are less viable at my current job, we have too much shit going on, don't really want to mess with each other's PCs.