Pranks are the most common and fun way to tease our family members. There is nothing wrong with them as long as they are not harmful to anyone. Now, as these are the days the internet and computers are totally dictating the people. Pranks can also be planned using the technology that attracts and surprises the people. If you are also one among those few people who likes to prank with your friends in a technical way, then you must check and try these simple and not at all harmful viruses to tease your dear ones.
Harmless Viruses To Freak Out Your Friends
Fake Blue Screen of Death:
This is a simple fake virus that upsets and confuses your friends. You can find a BSOD tool online which you can copy and paste in a notepad and then rename it with .bat extension which you can use to freak out your friends. Opening this file will turn their computer screen. But be careful while choosing and copying and pasting the BSOD files.
EICAR Test File:
This test file can also be found on the internet and can trigger the antivirus software towards prompting the users to take the required action. EICAR test file is an internationally recognized test file. It will make the antivirus act accordingly towards taking certain action and it even recognizes the test file and informs the user.
Fake Update:
http://fakeupdate.net/ website allows the users to make their friend’s computer screen turn into a slow system update. All you have to do is just enter the site mentioned above and choose the screen that you want and then press F11 to enter full-screen mode and bring that real updating impact and then you can tease your friends saying it is a fake update happening.
Thus you can try these not harmful viruses and throw them on your friends to tease them but you must be very much careful while choosing the test files for the above-mentioned files.