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PrECISE - It's the New SOPA/PIPA/ACTA
worstje:
Nice hoax. Doesn't look super official though, and that's probably for the best in case you're gonna get in trouble for impersonating a federal office or whatever. :-\
Stoic Joker:
After giving the user time to read this dire warning, the program begins going through top-level files in the user's Music, Pictures, and My Videos folders, deleting files. It doesn't really delete any files, but sure looks like it is -- progress bar and all. The user can try escaping with Alt-tab, Ctrl-Escape, even Ctrl-Alt-Del then Task Manager -- all to no avail.-kyrathaba (February 26, 2012, 01:23 PM)
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Cool ... But it should have some type of kill code for emergencies. ...Either way I just know this will come it handy at some point. Thanks for sharing!
40hz:
Nice hoax. Doesn't look super official though, and that's probably for the best in case you're gonna get in trouble for impersonating a federal office or whatever. :-\
-worstje (February 26, 2012, 01:34 PM)
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Love it...but....um, yeah. You might want to come up with a logo for a wholly fictitious agency or industry watchdog for this. You're sailing out on dangerous waters using the logo of a real one. Even as a joke.
kyrathaba:
Good advice, all. I've replaced Homeland Security with the "World Digital Piracy Prevention League". Try this version...
kyrathaba:
Cool ... But it should have some type of kill code for emergencies. ...Either way I just know this will come it handy at some point. Thanks for sharing!
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It's coded so that it only examines the top-level files in the Videos, Pictures, and Music directories. Also, the more files there are, the faster it processes them. The entire program execution-time on my machine (it processes 150 files) is 51 seconds. It's just designed to give a quick scare. Most people don't keep a whole lot of files in the root of those particular directories, but rather use subdirectories for various genres, file-dates, etc.
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