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1st year at Uni. Year is 1993. 286 running DOS on top of Novel Netware and booting from network off a 386 behemoth that need it to run 1st. So this guy was the
by unnouinceput 7y ago
1st year at Uni. Year is 1993. 286 running DOS on top of Novel Netware and booting from network off a 386 behemoth that need it to run 1st.
So this guy was the sysadmin, a freshly minted assistant which had the bad habit of copying our sources and see if anything interesting is in it. Therefor I wrote a piece of code called Super.exe with nice graphics and a lot of bling bling that had inside a virus which when run from a normal user (like ours) did nothing but when was run from a Supervisor (Novel's name for Administrator) account would create another user called Hypervisor with blank password. I created the .exe, erased the sources and let it sit on my account and went home.
Next morning I tried the Hypervisor account and what do you know! I got in. Used for next 3 years to give my normal user more space when I need it and to do creepy stuff to said assistant when he was pissing me off. Poor sod never knew, always suspected bugs and viruses. I told him 5 years after that, when we met by chance at a beer with common friends. His eyes opened wide and exclaimed: "So it was you!!? I never suspected you". Fun times.
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