And by evil genius I really just mean some guy with too much time on his hands. I dick around with my sister's computer when she's not home. Sometimes I change her wallpaper or her home page for firefox or one time put some tape over the sensor on her mouse so it wouldn't work. This one was pretty bad and it got her mad enough she demanded her apartment key back. Totally worth it though. So I learned you could type commands into a word processor and save as a .bat file and running the file would run the commands through command prompt. I made a .bat that would run this video then shut down her computer then disguised it as firefox deleting the original desktop shortcut. Every time she tried to run firefox it would just shut the computer down instead.
That would be a batch file. A group of commands to be executed by the command interpreter. Your discovery of the function of a batch file does not quite rise to the level of genius. I am also afraid that pranking your sister is not exactly "evil". I mean if she ended up raped by a bunch of homeless dudes or something... it would still require that intent to be evil... but if you are one of those homeless guys... you definitely sweep the category.
I kinda agree with Ctrl here. While that is surely irritating, truly evil genius stuff is far worse. A IT guy once told me that his computer got a virus once that started partitioning all available space into 1 mb partition - thus creating literally thousands of partitions. Too this day I don't know if he was yanking me chain or not. But if that sort of evil is truly out there heaven help the jackass if I find him and it happens to my machine.
That would take a very long time... but would be particularly hard to recover from. Data would just start getting fragmented and destroyed... like a game of asteroids, sped up by millions.
Like I said, I don't know if it was true or not. But it serves as a wonderful 'boogeyman' to make sure you're not careless with your machine. Even on my *nix box I am careful because *nix is not invulnerable. The internet is a cesspool of malware and problems now days.
I guess you guys missed the very first sentence of the thread where I said "And by evil genius I really just mean some guy with too much time on his hands."
No... I saw it. I just couldn't come up with a better way to make a joke about you raping your sister. Sister raping jokes find less opportunity than you would think... and I just exploited the thread title in belligerence to your disclaimer.
Now a real "Evil Genius" would do something a bit more sophisticated. Like hacking the hostname file, so that any time they go to their favorite websites like google or cat fancy, it takes them to say a gay porn site or hampster dance.
I have, in fact, done exactly this to a friend of mine at one time - used the host file to redirect all his bookmarked links to a gay porn site. His reaction was hilarious. Another one that's fun... Step 1 - Take a screenshot of their empty desktop. Step 2 - Set that screenshot as their desktop background. Step 3 - Hide all the desktop icons and the taskbar. Step 4 - Laugh as they get frustrated when nothing happens while clicking on anything, including several reboots. Neither being "genius", just good times.
