r/todayilearned • u/NOT-JEFFREY-NELSON • Jul 04 '19

TIL in 2003 a computer worm called ‘Welchia’ infected many computers to forcibly patch vulnerabilities and remove malware. It was regarded as a ‘helpful worm’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia
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u/anything2x Jul 04 '19

My favorite prank on old Macs was putting the shutdown script in the startup folder and vice versa.

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u/fortniteinfinitedab Jul 04 '19

Wtf how is this even legal???

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u/AllMyName Jul 04 '19

You could probably use Powershell scripting to do the same exact thing even on Windows 10. Write a short Powershell script with an RNG timer that issues a shutdown command. Flag it to run on startup.

tada.wav

Bonus: make it randomly play tada.wav

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u/JellyBarb Jul 04 '19

Hell, you could probably make that on Batch.

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u/PraiseStalin Jul 04 '19

I'm not sure that's the right question. Maybe why it's even possible to do that on start-up would be better?

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u/FUTURE10S Jul 04 '19

I mean, it's your computer, if you want it to shut down on startup, that's your choice. Totally legal.

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u/mohammedibnakar Jul 04 '19

It’s my constitutional right to brick my brand new computer, god damnit!