The thrill of a simple practical joke....

[jase71]

Never, ever take vacation... :P Especially
not if I'm bored.

Nice and simple. Modified the HOSTS file of
a non-techie co-worker's pc.

Now, when he tries to look for a new job
by typing in monster.com, he'll go to
barneyonline.com. A big purple dinosaur
will pop up and sing to him.

CNN.com, FoxNews.com and ABCNews.com all strangely
send you to each other's sites.

The company's homepage is now
landoverbaptist.org.

And his local ISP's home page
now oddly resembles AOL's.

Such a simple thing... and he'll never figure
it out. Can't wait to hear Barney singing
through his speakers on Monday... :D

[NuTs62]

:heh: evil... very evil...

[Jihforce]

I was thinking about baking some cookies with those chocolate laxatives. Put it in the office's kitchen and place a "do not eat" sign there. Then, when you see people running to the bathroom, you'll know who at the cookies :hihi:
That's kinda mean huh?

[eSDee]

Jase, that's hilarious. How did you modify the host file? Where is it located? I might want to do that at my work as well :naughty:

[soong]

This HOSTS file is located here:

Linux /etc
Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\
Windows NT/2000/XP c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\
(you may need administrator access for Windows NT/2000)


also a good way to deflect pop ups and banner ads

[topane]

Now that's a good one. I'll have to try that next week. Or better yet, when I go on vacation.

[cruelpupet]

ill have to switch my coworker...

yahoo games ---> ****** man
yahoo.com ---> ********.com <-- not sure if that is a site...but im sure it redirects to some sort of gay porn with a name like that


edit: why is ****** ***'ed out its not a link and its not even a .com

[nomoney]

my has about 20 gigs of mp3z. when he went home one time I batch renamed em to *.mp0 and then moved em to a different folder deep in windows. He freaked out. I thought it was soooo funny. I am scared about what hes is gona do to get me back

[jase71]

Originally posted by EsDeeLoco
Jase, that's hilarious. How did you modify the host file? Where is it located? I might want to do that at my work as well :naughty:

Soong gave the locations...

You just need to pull up the HOSTS file in notepad and at the bottom, enter the IP of the site you want him to go to... and then the name of the site you think he'll type.

So adding:

255.255.255.0 www.disney.com

would send him to whatever site is at 255.255.255.0 when he types www.disney.com into his browser.

Lots of fun. Gotta look up some whacko conspiracy sites this weekend, and change it so the rest of his commonly used sites pull up various oddball conspiracy pages....

[leemaj]

i found the hosts file..but what do i do after that to get it to do all that cool stuff?