Heya, folks. Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Be gentle. My fragile psyche bruises easily.
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. Student computers + no way to
track users == loads of viruses.
So, one day we noticed that one of the labs dedicated to teaching CAD
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. Then we laughed. Oh, we laughed. Not only did he oust himself, but he just drove the final nail into the coffin housing his computer usage privileges by threatening us!
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 pirated Mp3's he had downloaded using WinMX installations all over campus) over to a new server we were
migrating to.