Comments on: officepoltergeist | Play pranks on your friends with this open source software

By: singing vocal lessons

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By: manny

manny — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:46:02 +0000

Its just for fun

By: jd

jd — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:46:08 +0000

so what’s exactly the use of OfficePoltergeist?

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:20:51 +0000

@Bryan
Although my post (and yours,) it appears doesn’t seem to have survived I shall respond anyway, I normally wouldn’t waste my time.
Why call that man a tool?
Quite simply because anyone who is so completely lacking in a sense of humour and imagination as to post such a comment as,
“I don’t really understand the reason why people would want to play computer-based pranks anyway.”
quite definitely deserves to be called a tool.
For you Bryan, to then respond to my post with the puerile tactic of throwing my own comment back at me as an insult as well as stating that you think ,
“computer related pranks are so incredibly juevinile.”
would also put you well within the particular category of people that are defined as ‘tools.’ It would also I might add put you in the category of ‘humorless old goat!’ LOL, you tool!
Grab a sense of humour and lighten TF up already. Have you never heard of LAN parties? This computer prank would be ideal for such an event. Essentially any computer network that your job doesn’t rely on would be fair game.
By the way, checking these sorts of programs to see if they do anything outside of their defined function is really not that hard. To get your knickers in a knot about what you think it might do other then what it says it does shows a lack of understanding.

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:26:21 +0000

The tears will last longer than the laughter. Don’t even think about doing this one, unless you want to end up in the unemployment line.

This seemingly innocent prank could also house a virus, spyware, rootkit, malware, snooping software, etc.

Do you want to be the idiot who breached your company or organization’s network? I would fire your arse on the spot.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:51:04 +0000

hmmm.

This sort of software might be good for a laugh, but it is against mine (and many employers) security policy and/or contract of employment relating to unauthorized access to computers, installing of unauthorized software and unauthorized access to computer systems not explicitly permitted access to.

If you install this you could be breaking several company rules and get yourself fired, or at least in trouble, so it’s worth considering this before you install something like this!

By: Bull3t

Bull3t — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:41:06 +0000

It is blatantly going to be detected in a workplace, so there isn’t really much point in using it. I don’t really understand the reason why people would want to play computer-based pranks anyway.

Lame?

By: Famously Unknown

Famously Unknown — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:13:02 +0000

It is in fact a trojan… a trojan is used to control a remote pc… which is exactly what this does.

By: zak

zak — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:13:17 +0000

This is just to say that the tool is now essentially useless since i cant use in the office since it is detected as a Trojan. This website is also blocked by websense, i only got to it through a proxy

By: robert

robert — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:51:42 +0000

Symantec used your tool in a blog
just a FYI

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/10/extending_good_and_evil.html