Pranking a friend.

What my intention is to edit the HOSTS file so that he is unable to see any other internet page except for one. I'm pretty sure I know how to do this. At any rate I have a couple hunches. I have two questions:

at the end of the file can I simply add:


thats just an example. Would something like that work though?

also I used to have a repeating asian song saved in my favorites years ago. I have forgotten the name of the song, but it was some anime chick swinging what looked like an onion around while singing some catchy little tune that would repeat over and over again for as long as the web page was open.....for the life of me I can not find it anymore.

By some miracle does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?

If I can't find that one does anyone have a web site with an IP address that is just a repeating song? or something that would work as a good prank?

Thanks again for the help =D

p.s. the friend of mine is a co-worker who thinks he's God when it comes to fixing computers. One of those guys who really couldn't figure out which end of the screwdriver does the work. Today he told me I need to download CCleaner because i "have way to many programs running in the back ground of my computer." then proceeded to argue that c cleaner was the best anti virus program out there and that he has fixed many a infected computer by using it alone.

Can't help with the technical stuff, but the site your looking for is http://leekspin.com/

yeah I love you. If I weren't married you'd be the one....so long as you were a hot chick =D

just remove the # and make sure the entry is on a separate line and ur golden AFAIK

nd4spdbh2 said:

just remove the # and make sure the entry is on a separate line and ur golden AFAIK

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From what I have learned in the last few mintues I can use the HOSTS file to block websites. But I haven't been able to force a redirect to ONE specific site....

Methal said:

yeah I love you. If I weren't married you'd be the one....so long as you were a hot chick =D

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Sorry, not a hot chick. Just an average white guy.

You can redirect individual sites (host names) to any IP address you want, but I don't know how to redirect all the traffic from a machine to one site or IP addy. You could add a line for each of his commonly visited sites, but that could take a long time.

I don't think you can do that with a HOSTS file. But you could set his browser's proxy server as a website and every url will just go to that website.

kayson said:

I don't think you can do that with a HOSTS file. But you could set his browser's proxy server as a website and every url will just go to that website.

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This, because I've ran into rogue-antivirus and trojans that configures your proxy settings to redirect you to ads or porn sites.

Try installing that on his machine...

If he uses firefox you could also write a ff addon. Theyre easy to make. I did one that made each page load have a certain percentage chance of going to a rickroll instead. It was awesome

When changing settings like this in the office in the past, I've changed the setting with a bat or cmd file.

If you do it this way... you know those obscure registry entries malware likes to insert commands into so that it runs every time you start your PC? Trigger your bat or cmd file there so the problem returns every time they restart, and they will have a hard time permanently fixing the problem without digging deeper (or coming crawling back to you for help).

If you have physical access to the machine and can add a user account to the administrators group, you could do that also. Map a drive from your PC to the administrative share on his PC using the account username/password from the administrators group on his PC. Once the drive is mapped, you have authenticated to his PC with full administrative access.

1. Use remote computer management to connect remotely - turn on/off services, enable/disable things in device manager, clear the event logs to erase your tracks.
2. Use remote registry to connect remotely - insert entries of your choice into his autorun registry values
3. Use psexec to run any application you want to run on his machine - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

Using a little creativity, you can have him thinking that machine is completely possessed.

I.M.O.G. said:

When changing settings like this in the office in the past, I've changed the setting with a bat or cmd file.

If you do it this way... you know those obscure registry entries malware likes to insert commands into so that it runs every time you start your PC? Trigger your bat or cmd file there so the problem returns every time they restart, and they will have a hard time permanently fixing the problem without digging deeper (or coming crawling back to you for help).

If you have physical access to the machine and can add a user account to the administrators group, you could do that also. Map a drive from your PC to the administrative share on his PC using the account username/password from the administrators group on his PC. Once the drive is mapped, you have authenticated to his PC with full administrative access.

1. Use remote computer management to connect remotely - turn on/off services, enable/disable things in device manager, clear the event logs to erase your tracks.
2. Use remote registry to connect remotely - insert entries of your choice into his autorun registry values
3. Use psexec to run any application you want to run on his machine - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

Using a little creativity, you can have him thinking that machine is completely possessed.

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LOL sounds like you have done this a time or two hahahah!

i say start off with the hosts file... then go from there

tst-tst if that isn't experience talking, I don't know what is!

Only prank I've pulled is writing a "my little pony" script. It set my buddy's desktop background to a picture with ponies and rainbows and pink castles. It also created a shortcut in the startup list that looked like it was running a script that was setting the background, but that was a decoy. The real trigger was in the registry.

The rest is stuff I actually use to fix problems typically, but there are reasons why you shouldn't screw with the it staff.

I.M.O.G. said:

Only prank I've pulled is writing a "my little pony" script. It set my buddy's desktop background to a picture with ponies and rainbows and pink castles. It also created a shortcut in the startup list that looked like it was running a script that was setting the background, but that was a decoy. The real trigger was in the registry.

The rest is stuff I actually use to fix problems typically, but there are reasons why you shouldn't screw with the it staff.

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I know of a registry value that I can delete that will prevent someone from changing their background. Did that to another co-worker already. Was freaking awesome watching him try to get zak effron off his background =D

Speaking of pranks....

Anyone remember that site where your watching a video or something (I only remember bits and pieces of it) and then all of a sudden a picture flashes with this scary *** girl (like from the movie the grudge) and has a high pitched scream.

Anyone remember it?

Yes and 30 other variants of it. I'm so glad that trend died.

DaveHCYJ said:

Yes and 30 other variants of it. I'm so glad that trend died.

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yes, messing yourself becomes annoying, and can be really inconvenient :-o.

Boy-oh-boy it would be dangerous to p__s you guys off!

Oh boy this remind me of the meatspin days.

JimmyG said:

Boy-oh-boy it would be dangerous to p__s you guys off!

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This is why I don't understand people that come and spam/attack/mess with this site. I could see some really bad things in thier future. /format Talk about prank.