In 6th grade I wrote a fake virus that pretended to format the hard drive and then left the user at a C:\> prompt. I left it on my moms 486DX-33 (with a turbo

In 6th grade I wrote a fake virus that pretended to format the hard drive and then left the user at a C:\> prompt. I left it on my moms 486DX-33 (with a turbo button) for her to find it on the weekend. Well she never turned her computers on so it promptly left my mind that evening when I went to go play at a friends house. Fast forward to Monday morning I get called to the office over the classroom PA “ooooooh grepfru_it you’re in trouuuuubleeee”. I couldn’t imagine what I did wrong. I get to the office and the principal says I have to urgently call my mom. So I dial the home number and my mom is frantic on the phone “GREPFRU_IT MY COMPUTER ERASED ITSELF FROM A VIRUS! I TOLD YOU NEVER TO INSTALL GAMES ON IT”. Thinking: the last game I installed was a month ago. Then it clicked my fake virus. I laughed so hard I started crying. The principal and school administrators looking at me like I was crazy. I told my mom to eject the floppy disk and restart the computer. She immediately started laughing when she realized she didn’t check if a disk was in the drive. She said never do that again and hung up on me. I couldn’t stop laughing all the way back to class — to which I then pretended like I was getting suspended for getting into a fight (the whole class knew I was lying about that one though) Ahhhh to be a kid too smart for his time again