I Get Caught Working My Computer Magic
I got Windows Remote Access rights suspended for everyone at a Fortune 1000 company. Why? One of my co-workers was annoying the absolute heck out of me and I decided I would prank him. So, I wrote a little script that would Remote Access me to his PC.
I waited until he left his desk for a few minutes and did the prep work on his PC for permissions. Then came the good part. For three months I was driving this guy insane.
He would walk away, then I would Remote Access in and close out windows, open new windows, send him blank emails from himself, cancel print jobs, change his background, change his home-pages in Internet Explorer, I even messed with his Host file to re-route him to certain websites, etc.
I even got brave enough to do it a few times while he was at his desk, since he would text often and you could hear the iPhone texting sounds throughout the office. It was going great, until I took it too far one day. I changed his keyboard scheme from QWERTY to DVORAK.
He was the sort that would just type while looking at the keyboard and assume everything was coming up on the screen fine. So he sent out a few emails that were pure gibberish except for his signature. Someone responded back with just a question mark.
He freaked out and contacted IT, thinking his system had a virus. I Remoted in and switched it back to QWERTY, but I didn’t do it fast enough and IT caught me.
A memo went out to all employees stating that the only approved methods for Remote Access were programs X, Y, and Z, and that the native Windows Remote Access was disabled from there on out. Story credit: Reddit