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Great Office Prank

I found this on another forum. Funny stuff!

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This is VERY fun. I've been messing with all the printers hooked to the network with this lately. My boss's printer constantly says PC LOAD LETTER (office space reference).

I even went through the trouble to change my fellow IT guy's printer in corporate headquarters to RADIATION LEAK

Here's how to do it...

Download pstatus.exe from here: http://www.chrisinvt.com/files/pstatus.exe
Place pstatus on your desktop
Go to Start > Run and type in cmd
Type in cd desktop and hit enter
type in pstatus IP OF PRINTER "YOUR MESSAGE" and hit enter***
Laugh at confused coworkers when they go to the printer and see the new status message!

This will work on most printers. I've tested it with HP, Lexmark & IBM and it's worked great! I've also tested with some Konika printer/copiers and they didn't work. This will clear on a [printer] reboot. What I did to combat my boss rebooting the printer (thinking there's something wrong with it) is setup a scheduled task on my laptop to run every minute changing the status message back to PC LOAD LETTER" :haha:

***EXAMPLE 1: pstatus 192.168.23 "STOP KILLING TREES!!"
***EXAMPLE 2: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop>pstatus 192.168.1.23 "CAUTION: RADIATION LEAK DETECTED!"

Here is what one guy did...

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Here's what our printer says:
http://i38.tinypic.com/2md0779.jpg
:lol:

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Careful doing that, hopefully its not a virus....

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Good call. That's why I don't want to even try it.

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Originally Posted by polishmafia (Post 252044)

Here is what one guy did...

Nice! But what he should have put on there was "Replace me I'm old"

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Haha thats awesome! If someone else does it then I will attempt this.

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someone try it on a bogus network so if it is indeed a virus, then you'll be safe

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God I tensed up trying not to laugh at that one. "INSERT BACON"

God ahahahahahahha.

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My guess is that this is an executable of something very similar to this:
http://kovaya.com/miscellany/2007/10/insert-coin.html

Unfortunately, I don't have rights to install a perl script compiler on my work PC and was never able to try this.

However, a Google search for pstatus.exe brings up several malware links...