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Topic: My little popup joke - This is actually kind of funny (Read 3668 times)
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jaychant
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So a few months back, I created a simple program in Visual Basic that runs in the background and shoots a random popup every couple of minutes and put it in my sister's startup folder. So my sister gets popups every once in a while when she's on her account.
This in itself isn't funny, it's a rather stupid joke. What's funny is how they've reacted to it.
First off, my sister hasn't even checked her Startup folder. She just chooses to ignore it and calls it a "bug" (of course, that is WAY inaccurate; malware would even be a more proper term, and that's not really accurate either). Similarly, my dad (who should know better since he works with computers) thinks it's a virus, and hasn't considered the fact that only my sister gets the popups (plus, it doesn't trigger Avast! antivirus, which is a really good virus protection).
Second, even funnier: One of the popups has a message somewhere along the lines of "Your desktop wallpaper is corrupt. Please change your desktop wallpaper." My brother actually takes these messages seriously and keeps changing my sister's background, much to my sister's annoyance.
This, my friends, proves how stupid some people can be when it comes to their computer. 
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Dabir
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That'll seriously piss them off if they do it. How about:
"Your monitor angle is invalid. Please adjust your monitor angle."
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Heh, monitor angle... I can imagine my brother constantly adjusting the monitor to validate the monitor angle. Too bad there isn't an lol smiley, I could use it right now!
Or how about this: "The fan which keeps this PC cool is overworked! Please give the fan a break by putting your computer in standby for at least 60 minutes."
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"The USB plug is malfunctioning. Please discontinue use of USB devices, such as the mouse and keyboard, for 15 minutes while Windows solves the problem."
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"The music you are listening to stinks. Please stop listening to that music or a meltdown may occur."
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I know a little about Visual Basic. Are you using a simple form with a message or an actual dialog box with button controls in which your victims have to click a choice? The latter could be interesting if you give them one of two "unthinkable" options.. Press OK to reformat HD or Cancel to Uninstall Windows from this PC..that sort of thing. 
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