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Back in high school, I and four buddies of mine were the unofficial "tech support" for the entire campus. If anyone had a problem, we came in and fixed it, seeing as our technologist was always too busy playing Call of Duty on his Alienware computer with its huge flatscreen LCD. We didn't mind, though, because it made us heroes in the eyes of a lot of people. Especially the librarians. Public use computers + no way to track users == HOLY CRAP VIRUSES.
So, one day we noticed that one of the labs dedicated to teaching CAD (computer aided drafting/drawing) was acting up. Someone was installing pirated versions of the PC version of Halo on multiple computers, and it was sucking up a lot of precious space on the hard drives. Seeing as it's against school policy to load any personal software on the machines, especially games, we uninstalled Halo from every one of them, and all was cool.
Until the next day, that is. We found it had been REinstalled. Irritated, the five of us repeated the process, uninstalling Halo. When it popped up AGAIN the next day, we asked the professors who used the room to watch for any weird activity around those computers, and repeated the uninstall.
Well, we didn't need to wait long. In fact, the next day, the one installing the game onto the computers, a lanky, dorky beanpole with bad acne and a worse attitude, stormed up to us... and threatened TO OUR FACES that if we uninstalled Halo again, he'd send us all viruses that would wreck our computers.
We stared at him.
Uh... HELLO?? First and foremost, thanks for letting us know who you are! Second of all, you're talking to people who really COULD pwn your computer and turn it into a big metal brick if you pissed us off enough!
The banhammer came down, and the guy was effectively banned from using any of the labs on campus. Not only that, but we got back at him in our own way. Every student on campus has a personal folder on a central server, accessible via VPN, in which they can store any school-related data. Well, one of us worked with the guy who managed those folders, and conveniently forgot to copy the twerp's folder--- which was full of nothing but pirated Mp3's, no homework--- over to a new server we were migrating to...
So, one day we noticed that one of the labs dedicated to teaching CAD (computer aided drafting/drawing) was acting up. Someone was installing pirated versions of the PC version of Halo on multiple computers, and it was sucking up a lot of precious space on the hard drives. Seeing as it's against school policy to load any personal software on the machines, especially games, we uninstalled Halo from every one of them, and all was cool.
Until the next day, that is. We found it had been REinstalled. Irritated, the five of us repeated the process, uninstalling Halo. When it popped up AGAIN the next day, we asked the professors who used the room to watch for any weird activity around those computers, and repeated the uninstall.
Well, we didn't need to wait long. In fact, the next day, the one installing the game onto the computers, a lanky, dorky beanpole with bad acne and a worse attitude, stormed up to us... and threatened TO OUR FACES that if we uninstalled Halo again, he'd send us all viruses that would wreck our computers.
We stared at him.
Uh... HELLO?? First and foremost, thanks for letting us know who you are! Second of all, you're talking to people who really COULD pwn your computer and turn it into a big metal brick if you pissed us off enough!
The banhammer came down, and the guy was effectively banned from using any of the labs on campus. Not only that, but we got back at him in our own way. Every student on campus has a personal folder on a central server, accessible via VPN, in which they can store any school-related data. Well, one of us worked with the guy who managed those folders, and conveniently forgot to copy the twerp's folder--- which was full of nothing but pirated Mp3's, no homework--- over to a new server we were migrating to...
Like it has been said, you do not want to piss off the IT guys.
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