Trick your friends with these Halloween PC pranks

November 01, 2013

April Fool's Day is for amateurs. Halloween is the holiday for serious troublemakers. It's a far better occasion for playing tricks, because the days are cold and dark, and everyone is thinking about ghosts and ghouls, but nobody is expecting to be pranked. Suckers. We've handpicked our favorite PC pranks to share with you, dear reader, in hopes of sowing some mischief in offices and homes around the world. Each of these tricks is easy to set up: All you need is a wireless keyboard or mouse, and clandestine access to your target's PC for a few minutes. Ghost writer This is the easiest trick in the haunted PC book, yet somehow it always works. Most people would rather blame malware, hackers or cursed luck for their PC's misbehaviors, rather than actually get up and check to make sure nobody's plugged anything weird into the case. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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