So what have you found while fixing peoples computers?

[Nix]

When they came back to pick up the pc they looked a little sheepish, obviously wondering if we had seen the stuff. Everyone was totally normal right upto waving them goodbye through the window at which point 3 of the lads came running out of the back with "i love lesbians" t-shirts on! ( one of the guys had a brother who owned a printers who did tshirts and stuff ).

The look on the girls faces was a priceless picture

And no i dont before anyone asks. The disc got lost years ago sadly.

HAHAHA!

I once found some illicit videos of the equestrian sense on my mate's PC. The poor sod didn't know if it was his dad or his younger brothers who were responsible.

Also, whilst gandering at a mate's PC, I happened to stumble across his less than traditional 'adult' searches, which at the time claimed was his brother. Nevertheless I enjoy winding him up about it whenever I can be bothered.

 

[Werewolf]

I've found that some people have far too much porn on their machines - hundreds of gigs of it in fact.
I've discovered that many people will assume that installing an AV product is enough to protect them forever, and it never needs to be updated.
That it's not a good idea to look in the favourites folders, or the email storage locations - just copy the relevant folders, don't look in them.


I've not found anything much more dodgy than some gay porn thogh.

 

[kingo15]

ive only ever cleaned pc's up for people complaing about slowing running and booting.
only for friends and family but they all seem to use limewire and bearshare i think it was the record for viruses and malious ware was about 1500 odd was quite funny.

 

[eXor]

A mate bought his PC round this morning because it has slowed down and things have gone missing.

Shared account? If that is the case then he only has himself to blame.


Give the son a limited user account and secure folders that he shouldn't be accessing.

or

Dual boot - split the disk into two partitions and secure your mate's partition. 95% / 5%, see how much he can download with such a tiny allocation.

 

[JBuk]

I will definitely have to keep this away from his Dad.

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but tell the rest of the internet













i like your style

 

[Stan_Lite]

I'd be interested to know how many of you people would be happy if you found out the plumber you'd employed to fix your taps had been nosing about in your personal stuff? Not many, I would imagine.

People in a position of trust who rifle through someone's personal folders on a PC they've been asked to mend are despicable in my book - if you wouldn't want it done to you, don't do it to other people.

 

[Scuzi]

I'd be interested to know how many of you people would be happy if you found out the plumber you'd employed to fix your taps had been nosing about in your personal stuff? Not many, I would imagine.

People in a position of trust who rifle through someone's personal folders on a PC they've been asked to mend are despicable in my book - if you wouldn't want it done to you, don't do it to other people.

A lot of the time it is staring you right in the face and cannot be ignored. A lot of people are stupid enough to leave it on display.

 

[Mirage]

I used to work in a local PC sales/repair shop, guy bought in a PC because it was running slow and the cd drive wouldn't work.

Booted it up, and was riddled with viruses so ran him to up to confirm we'd format etc. CD Drive still seemed to be receiving power and just clicked when pressing the release button, opened it up using the manual release and out pops a cd with 'Beastality Porn' writen across it.

Was quite funny watching his face when we handed him the PC back, with his disc of course .

 

[Nebzor]

I'd be interested to know how many of you people would be happy if you found out the plumber you'd employed to fix your taps had been nosing about in your personal stuff? Not many, I would imagine.

People in a position of trust who rifle through someone's personal folders on a PC they've been asked to mend are despicable in my book - if you wouldn't want it done to you, don't do it to other people.

What if you don't mind it being done to you?

And I would rather someone's "trust" was breached resulting in a paedophile being prosecuted than for said paedophile to carry on.

Edit: Just an example, of course.

 

[squawkBOX]

When walking past an internet cafe in Glasgow which had a massive glass window seen a guy in a suit happily surfing porn allowing anyone to walk past to see

This didn't happen to be the one on St. Vincent Street (easyInternetCafe) was it? I walk by there frequently and have lost count of the number of times I have seen this!

 

[JBuk]

What if you don't mind it being done to you?

And I would rather someone's "trust" was breached resulting in a paedophile being prosecuted than for said paedophile to carry on.

Edit: Just an example, of course.

so you think its ok to rifle through someones pc in the off chance you find someone to be a paedo?

 

[4T5]

I'd be interested to know how many of you people would be happy if you found out the plumber you'd employed to fix your taps had been nosing about in your personal stuff? Not many, I would imagine.

People in a position of trust who rifle through someone's personal folders on a PC they've been asked to mend are despicable in my book - if you wouldn't want it done to you, don't do it to other people.

I think that's a very fair attitude mate but some times you have to search through files to fix the issues or at least find out what caused it to stop it happening again.
I think it's more about what you do with the info, telling other people is wrong, Posting on the Interweb is wrong but only if names & places are used. I have to ask what would you do if you found Kiddy porn on somebodys PC you was fixing ? Would you consider that an invasion of privacy ?

 

[Nebzor]

so you think its ok to rifle through someones pc in the off chance you find someone to be a paedo?

I never said "you should feel free to rummage through the contents", but when there are folders obviously named (as a lot of them tend to be) I think it would be wrong not to investigate.

 

[Duke]

I service hundreds of systems a year and come across the usual porn. Thankfully not come across any sick stuff.

 

[Dano]

Anything I find (and by find I mean come across rather than go looking for) on people's pcs stays confidential unless it's something my concience requires me to report to the police, which has yet to ever happen.

 

[.walls]

I'd be interested to know how many of you people would be happy if you found out the plumber you'd employed to fix your taps had been nosing about in your personal stuff? Not many, I would imagine.

People in a position of trust who rifle through someone's personal folders on a PC they've been asked to mend are despicable in my book - if you wouldn't want it done to you, don't do it to other people.

A lot of the time it is staring you right in the face and cannot be ignored. A lot of people are stupid enough to leave it on display.

You both have very good points and I agree with both.

A few years ago when I was doing desktop support, I had a call because some bloke's pda wasn't syncing with his company desktop. when I got there, he showed me the issue and requeted that I make sure that his favourites from his desktop would sync as well - which he proceded to show me was full of gay pr0n sites...

Some people just are just plain dumb.

 

[Stan_Lite]

What if you don't mind it being done to you?

And I would rather someone's "trust" was breached resulting in a paedophile being prosecuted than for said paedophile to carry on.

Edit: Just an example, of course.

If you go to someone's house, do you rifle through their personal belongings on the off chance of finding evidence of criminal activity?

If I was mending someone's PC and there was a folder called 'Kiddie Porn' on the desktop or somewhere I had a legitimate reason to be looking, of course I would do something about it but I'm not going to go searching in places I have no business being, on the off chance of finding something dodgy.

 

[Moredhel]

In my friends case it was a bit hard to ignore it being the desktop background. And I only found it out when ad-aware (this was back when it was still good) threw all kinds of sites up.

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Just the usual shady bit of normal porn. Nothing out of the ordinary for a male.

 

[Sinny]

I once found a shed load of sick videos while i was on work experience at (the purple shirt house), Needles to say when the fella came back in he was about 80 and said he is the only one who used it.