Scare Your Parents!

[Simba49 0]

Did your parents just buy you a new computer that they would be very angry if it was ruined? Or are your parents just computer nuts who don't want an easily removed virus to touch their computer? Well, it's time to freak them out.

What I'm doing is giving Internet Explorer, or preferably FireFox, to tell your parents that you're infected with a virus:

Copy and paste this into your url browser exactly, lol!

java script:alert('Error 2214- Your computer has been infected with a trojan horse virus) ');

[onthescreen 0]

Did your parents just buy you a new computer that they would be very angry if it was ruined? Or are your parents just computer nuts who don't want an easily removed virus to touch their computer? Well, it's time to freak them out.
What I'm doing is giving Internet Explorer, or preferably FireFox, to tell your parents that you're infected with a virus:

Copy and paste this into your url browser exactly, lol!

java script:alert('Error 2214- Your computer has been infected with a trojan horse virus) ');

Simple and effective! Note there is no space between java and script.
BTW i found an almost EXACT thread at https://www.sythe.org/?
plagiarism?
Edited June 11, 2007 by onthescreen (see edit history)

[HiddenKenshin 0]

Simple and effective! Note there is no space between java and script.

BTW i found an almost EXACT thread at https://www.sythe.org/?

plagiarism?

Doesn't work for me though. In firefox it just takes me to the google page for search results. Probably a good thing, right? I didn't bother to test it in Iexplorer, though.

[wutske 0]

haha, lol, makes me remind of an old application that could create custom error messages (like the ones windows 9x used to give quite often ). So funny, it could even be operated over a network

[kxrain 0]

lol nice one...but you need to copy and paste it right??

[Sten 0]

lol except ummm... hows it gonna scare your parents? while they are on the computer, just go and interrupt them and type that in and all of a sudden theres a virus? dont think so...for people that say it doesnt work, remove the space between java script, like thisjava script:alert('Error 2214- Your computer has been infected with a trojan horse virus) ');

[Aaron Mason 0]

lol except ummm... hows it gonna scare your parents? while they are on the computer, just go and interrupt them and type that in and all of a sudden theres a virus? dont think so...
for people that say it doesnt work, remove the space between java script, like this
java script:alert('Error 2214- Your computer has been infected with a trojan horse virus) ');

Hey,

You *could* try to set it as the start page, that might work...

(EDIT: IE 6 closes the browser if you do this, Safari refuses to do it, works in Opera and Firefox)
Edited March 10, 2008 by Aaron Mason (see edit history)

[sparkx 0]

My parents use Macs they know that Macs hardly ever get viruses. This doesn't work on my browser I just get a 404 page not found. If you really want to freak your parents out (and you have a windows boot CD) you could just move an essential boot file then it won’t even start until you repair your system... Probably shouldn't try this (unless you know exactly which file to move) as it may be un-fixable.Also Onthescreen is right. If you did copy this thread you should put it in quotes. Not fair to get credit for something you didn't type (unless you are the same as: Redemption on the other forum).Thanks Sparkx

[Shane Sonnier 0]

I tried that code to but nothing comes up i use dell with vista and it has so many programs that protect against those virus eveything has to be runned in admin mode and i have a web defender blocks those things vista has it problems some programs shut down with vista but its cool vista has a lot of programs on it and im useing a dell insporn with 3gbs the memory is awesome.

[FirefoxRocks 0]

It works in Mozilla Firefox (and related Mozilla-based browsers), haven't tried it in any other browsers yet. It's a simple piece of JavaScript, you can even make a simple HTML page and run it on the computer like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"><html lang="en"><head><title>Error!</title><script type="text/javascript">function virusAlert(){alert('Error 2214 - Your computer has been infected with a trojan horse virus) ');}</script></head><body onload="virusAlert()"></body></html>

Put it as their home page or something if you wish.

[Jared 0]

Personally I'm a fan of moving to VBScript for added realism of the message box!

<script type="text/vbscript">Dim ansans = MsgBox ("Error 2214 - Your computer has been infected with a trojan horse virus.", 16 + 4096, "Error 2214")</script>

This unfortunately doesn't work in Firefox. It's probably an IE thing.

[FirefoxRocks 0]

Yes, VBScript is an Internet Explorer-based technology. It can also be used in ASP, but as for its client-side purposes it only works in Internet Explorer and Trident-based browsers.This piece of JavaScript works with Firefox/Flock, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and also Google Chrome. However in some browsers the message will seem to appear from the URL of the page you are currently viewing.