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[MayaRefugee]

Hey Guys,

I've come here in the hope of receiving some help; I know nothing about programing but thought programmers would be the ones to pose my problem to.

I want to mess with someone.

They are using a shared computer to look at things on the net they shouldn't be looking at (not work related and I've attained this information using a key logger).

I want a program (or similar) to make this situation a bit more interesting for both me and them - :P.

This program would be triggered by certain characters being typed in a certain sequence i.e. the sites name in google search bar. It would then have a delay period so the site this person has been going to loads up. It would then take a screen shot of what's on the screen when they are looking at what they shouldn't be after this delay period has elapsed and they are underway with there viewing.

From here I am thinking it would be good to set this screen shot (browser of porn) as the desktop background while hiding all the icons and taskbars on the desktop at the same time so what they were looking at is now frozen on the screen and there are no options for them to do anything (I want them stuck with a computer with porn on the screen they can't get rid of). Obviously all programs that were open I would want to close as well so it's just the pseudo-pornsite on the screen giving the impression the screen is stuck on this porn site.

My thinking is that even if they turn the computer off and it reloads they can't rid of the porn they were looking at when their computer froze - to fix this they will have to concede to us (his housemates) he was looking at porn and "broke" the computer or take the computer to someone and get it fixed which fingers crossed won't happen.

They aren't very smart with computers so this will get them worried and they won't know how to fix it and it should be funny to watch them as they try and figure out what they are gonna do.

If anyone knows a way I could pull this off could you please let me know, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

:p

[analysis_junky]

I think what you are trying to accomplish has many complicated tasks. With that said, I don't think that it would be worth the trouble to code it...
Your best bet is to look through the browser's history for a recently visited porn site, then pull it up in the browser yourself.
At this point you can take a screenshot of the page, edit it to remove any unneeded parts of the page (like the browser menu, etc) from the image, and then save it.
Once it is saved, you can make it the desktop background.
In this case the manual process would be far easier and less intensive than an automated solution.

[MayaRefugee]

Thanks for the reply - :cool:

I want it to all happen while they are on the computer so they have no way to blame someone else.

I thought about it and thought a macro type thing would work which I will look into; I think getting it to execute dependant on certain keys being pressed might be an issue as well as making it wait a little while before it carries out its actions.

Just out of interest; would it be possible to use a macro program someone has already created and just tweak it to delay it's execution and what triggers it? - BTW I wouldn't know how to do this.

Peace.

[dargueta]

I did something almost exactly like this--including the porn bit, but far more elaborate as a whole--as an April Fool's prank on one of my friends. Your troublesome housemate is running Windows, correct? If so I can get you my code and you can tweak it as you see fit.

I'm gonna go to Hell for this... :D

[Donovan]

I almost died laughing at this. Sometimes I am SO glad that I have good knowledge with windows. Lmao, I would hate to be the victim in that case and not knowing what the hell to do.

Props to you for thinking of such an evil and funny plan.

[dargueta]

I have to warn you, though...my joke virus is very hard to get off...

[MayaRefugee]

Thanks for the complimentary replies guys, when I thought of it I assumed someone would have made something like it but I'm having no luck finding anything (other than darguetas offer).

Macro Recorders aren't doing much for me at the moment (free ones anyway).

Dargueta; I wouldn't know how to edit what you're offering - I appreciate your generosity though. I don't want something thats going to mess up the computer; ideally I'd be able to just unhide the desktop icons and the taskbar and change back the desktop background (but make him think I took it to the shop to get fixed at some breathtaking fee - ;)).

Peace.

[dargueta]

Well, I've got directions on how to take it off, now that I know how to. (Last time, I modified the program after I built in a back door, and accidentally plugged that back door. I know where it is now.)

Or you can try here: Trojan Joke Virus software download

[MayaRefugee]

I just went to that link and read the descriptions; they sound cool however getting what they were looking at i.e. whats on the screen when they were looking at a porn site, to appear frozen on the screen is an important part of this "scheme" :rolleyes: - those descriptions, no offence, don't seem to fit the bill.

[dargueta]

I know, but sometimes you've got to settle for something else. What version of Windows does your housemate's computer run?

[MayaRefugee]

It's XP.

[MayaRefugee]

I've just spent a bit of time playing around with different "macro recorders" and although I can see them having some potential in the realm of pranks the way most of them work isn't really suited to my "objective", they all seem to function dependant on the starting point of the mouse on the screen when you record a sequence of events, given the mouse could be anywhere on the screen its hard to get what I want to happen using this method.

Anyway, will keep trying - there has to be a way to do this - :p

Peace.