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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I made one called "crash_bandicoot.exe" that opened the windows calculator in an infinite loop.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had one of those, but it was just called putting something on the calculator key.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvDK8tMyCic

[–] jh29a@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

The modern school equivalent of cheap pranks on computers isn't some elaborate virus, it's just pressing the "mail" or "calculator" keys on the keyboard for the guy next to you. Never personally witnessed anything more elaborate, though my classmate apparently distributed dubious batch files he wrote once