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When I was in high school, cmd.exe was blocked on the school computers for obvious reasons. However, a classmate of mine figured out that you could create a .ba
by brundolf 6y ago
When I was in high school, cmd.exe was blocked on the school computers for obvious reasons. However, a classmate of mine figured out that you could create a .bat file that did nothing but pipe input and output to and from the shell, and then you could save it and double-click it to get a functioning terminal.
- zoover2020 6y agoReminds me of a trick I found to circumvent explorer.exe restrictions in HS: use Google Chrome as a File browser. I kid you not: was able to access local network drives with tests on them, never abused it though.
- Thorrez 6y agoAt my high school I found I could run any program I wanted as long as I renamed it to firefox.exe first.
- yonixw 6y agoWe just opened powershell instead
- girvo 6y agoUnder Novell NetWare at my school, all executables were banned aside from those in the launcher. Opening any office program, navigating to the Visual Basic macro editor environment, and using the file open dialog would execute any binary with no issue though!
- callesgg 6y agoIn the early 2000’s my school had some type of novel system. It would periodically log in and run some type of scheduled task without starting the desktop, just initiating a small window that said something like "updating profiles". you could right click the window and open the windows help window, right click that window and get a file browser from which you could run whatever you wanted. As a kid not knowing much about computers I thought that was so cool. I managed to "hack" and bypass the login. What a piece of shit software that thing was.
- colejohnson66 6y agoWe would just fire up “command.com” which would pull up cmd.exe even though we couldn’t execute it directly. (~2012)