I created a fake bootloader for my co-workers computer.

Nice 😂

By the way, welcome to devRant!!

@Linusero thanks stranger!

Evil!! 😀

Maybe I need a cup of coffee first. But I’m wondering about reverting RSA 🧐

I have to learn this.

PS. How did you inject that into his pc?

@Gregozor2121, thanks for the enthusiasm haha. Good luck learning machine code, I was killing myself reading it! As for how, I used a live iso (Linux) to boot up, backup, and replace his MBR. Just had to get some laughs with a fellow technician. Glad you enjoyed.

@crashbash
I have created a working cpu in minecraft. Also i have a pretty good understanding assembly.

IO might be the problem 🤔

@crashbash

You're pretty lucy that your colleague has that kind of humor, if s.o. would touch my machine, I would rip his head clean off! :>

@chromdioxyde, yeah most people would've ripped my head off ha, but I was the manager and it was to a technician in a volatile repair environment serviced by imaging servers. Wouldn't of been a big deal if it hit the fan. Just another day ;p

@chromdioxyde
If that have happened to me i would:
1.Shit myself
2.(after reveal and my countless attempts to fix it throwing linux at it)
Yell at him
3.If no data would be lost I would feel releaved and happy and appologise for yelling

@iamavalos Those are classic I love em. I sound a little more devious tho, I'd be executing fork bombs and watch as the life of the OS slowly faded away.

What distinguishes a virus from a fake-virus ?

@dder I'd say the level of harm or damage. ;P

PS. Love your username!

@crashbash hm, sure but where is the border ?
Being annoying? (Like the close-click-reopen)
Need to fix the bootloader (initial topic here) by reinstalling,
Deleting system files? (Fixable by reinstalling the system)
Deleting /home (hopefully you have a backup, or undelete works)
Overwriting the disk with /dev/random (backup needed definitely)
Spreading over network and erasing stuff on mounted network devices... (uh damn)
...

@dder well I'll rebuttle ironically.. it was a simple "dd bs=512 count=1..." To restore the bootloader. So damage? No. But I'd still agree this is on the end of the spectrum. Still can be funny in the right circumstance.

@crashbash im fine with that :)
If you know how to fix, the border will be somewhere else as if you’d be me mother. That this reopening window is already a real virus. And if it’s in the startup, then the computer is broken.

Why the username-like though?

@dder I'm a big fan of the cli tool dd. I read it as dd'er lol