Post by: Eric Li

How to make a fake virus

I didn't make that up. It's a popular trick that I found on Metacafe. It's just a written version of it.

1. Right-click on the desktop -> New -> Shortcut
   
   • You will be prompted to give the location of the item:
   
2. Type: Shutdown -s -t *seconds before computer shuts down* -c "Write something here that you want the user to see when he opens on the shortcut"
   
   • E.g.: Shutdown -s -t 30 -c "This is a virus! Your computer will shutdown soon!"
   Note: The s in -s means system, the t in -t means time and the c in -c means comment
3. Press next then name the shortcut to something tricky like Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox then press finish
4. The shortcut will appear on the desktop.
5. To have something more deceptive, change it's icon. Right-click on the icon -> Properties -> Shortcut -> Change Icon...:
6. Press OK then choose the icon.
   
   • If you chose Internet Explorer as trap, you will find it's icon of the complete right of the new menu.
     
   • If you chose Mozilla Firefox as trap, browse to where you installed it and choose it's icon. By default, it should be here: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe. Replace the C with the letter of the drive where you installed it
     
   • If you chose something else, find it's appropriate icon.
     
7. Click OK -> OK and it should change it's icon to what you chose.
8. Now, the next time someone double clicks on it, a countdown window will appear:
9. The victim, unless he knows the trick, will not be able to desactivate it:
10. To cancel he countdown, do: start -> Run... -> cmd then type in the dos prompt window that appear "shutdown -a" (Note that a in -a means aboard):
    
    
    
    
    
    

Happy virusing!

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