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I caused havoc in high-school with that. And finding a way of executing binaries inside Novell's Netware thing, via the "Open" dialog within any Office applicat

• VvR-Ox 7y ago
  Haha, me too :D Wrote a batch script that used a wildcard - it took them a while to find it and I was very lucky the only 3 persons who knew who it was wouldn't tell anyone. One was a teacher and I am thankful until today that he didn't screw up my life with telling this.
• throwaway_391 7y ago
  Renaming executables to explorer.exe worked with the application whitelisting solution my school implemented. That's how we ended up with 8-player age of empires 2 deathmatches after hours ;)
  • inlined 7y ago
    I created a directory with alt+255. It was an unprintable character and showed up last in any dir listing. At most it added an extra new line. That’s how I was one of the only students whose apps didn’t get caught during auditing.
  • Sahhaese 7y ago
    That brings me back. All .exe were blocked. However it turned out that you could rename them .bat or .cmd and they would execute just fine. I think Doom 2 multiplayer was extra fun because of the added need to be aware not just of in-game enemies but also the need to be aware of the teacher and be ready to instantly quit at any moment.