So it’s a boring a day and you are not in the mood to do anything.
Your eye’s hurt from playing Quake and UT all day.
So what is a sysadmin to do?
There is always the random resetting of users passowrds. Or th indiscriminate moving of files to locations that no longer exist.
But those always generate annoying phones calls requiring you to fix something, eventually.
That’s why I like to play a game called
“Fun with PSKill”
All you need is SysInternals PSlist and PSKill, and a list of machine names. Let the good times roll. (it also helps to have admin access to the machines, but as a sysadmin you should already have that)
First, pull up your handy dandy command line.
cd to your tools directory that contains pslist.
then pslist \\victimMachineName
Then pick yourself a PID. I personally like to stay with web browsers, no sense in crashing real programs and getting a phone call.
Once you have yourself a PID, it’s time for the fun.
pskill \\VictimMachineName PID
And let the games begin. They will usually relaunch their browser immediately. So make sure that you re-run pslist for new entries appearing.
At this point it would be way to easy to kill it as soon as it starts up. But that wouldgenerate an instant phone call saying that there is something wrong with their browser.
Instead, wait a minute (you could use this time to scope out another victim, there is nothing like a ghost browser closer running thru the network). Then hitthem again.
The little hampsters love this game and will thank you for making their day so enjoyable.
Well maybe not, but at least you will be amused.
And in the end, isn’t that what really matters anyways.