[identity profile] vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] techrecovery
This is probably the most amusing/mortifying thing that ever happened while I was doing support.

I used to support a Windows 2000 network with.... roaming profiles! It worked pretty well for the users that spent a lot of time in the office. The ones that were on the road a lot, well, they soon learned not to save too many things to 'My Documents' whilst off site.

I received a call one day from the company lawyer complaining it took him an hour to logon to his laptop while in the office. There weren't any real network problems at that point so I narrowed it down to his profile. I went into his directory on the file server and discovered a lot of files in the process of copying. All from My Pictures.

I think I must have forgotten to turn off thumbnail view or something because I was innundated with over 1.5GB of young men in various gay porn positions.

I deleted most of it, telling the company lawyer that ANYTHING IN 'MY PICTURES' GETS COPIED TO THE FILE SERVER. He stuttered a lot and thanked me for my er, discretion.

When we lost the contract in favor of another provider. Toward the end, I managed to finish some maintenance on the same server. Out of curiosity I checked his profile and found, again, over 3GB of porn. Some people never learn.....

An oldie but a goodie today as well. One of the instructors wandered into my office. 'The monitor won't come on. It says 'signal not detected.'' I muttered a bit and had a look, then promptly discovered she hadn't turned her computer on! If I had a nickel.....

Date: 2007-12-12 03:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com
don't people know by now to keep their work porn on their flash drive or a dvd.

Date: 2007-12-12 03:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brotherflounder
You're assuming that this is a young lawyer. My dad, 25 years older than me, can barely figure out how to send e-mail, and a lawyer 10 years older than him doesn't even HAVE e-mail.

Date: 2007-12-12 03:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com
noh, i'm assuming people who've kept fucking up enough times would eventually spank their hard drive and fuck a tree. Really, how many times does it take, whether it be virtual porn or physical porn before you "hide it under the bed?" Even the old folks know that much.

Date: 2007-12-12 04:03 pm (UTC)
brotherflounder: (Default)
From: [personal profile] brotherflounder
I see your point, however, expecting $LUSER to learn from his mistakes with the porn when most lusers don't learn from their mistakes with everything else is quite optimistic.

Which is how my idiot brother has been caught by my mother twice this year. Despite my attempts at warning him that it was far too obvious.

Date: 2007-12-12 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com
either that or he wants your mother to find it, and in that case, well you have bigger problems.

Date: 2007-12-12 03:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kukla-red.livejournal.com
This story brings back a rather disturbing memory. I used to help out the parents of a friend of mine with their home computer - helped them pick it out, placed the order for them, got it set up for them when it arrived, etc. I used to go over every few months to run routine maintenance on it, clean out the cache, all that fun stuff. One day I got a call from the wife of the couple saying that the pc was running really slowly and that something must be wrong. So I drove over that night and started checking things out.

It turned out the hard drive was almost completely full - all 80GB of it. (This goes back a few years when 80GB was huge.) I took a look at the files and sure enough, there was a ton of porn downloaded. And it was all the most disgusting animal/human stuff! I couldn't believe what I was seeing - these people were like Ozzie and Harriet - you couldn't get more down home and Norman Rockwell than these folks.

I just quietly deleted it all and ran some utilities to wipe it clean. I never said a word to anyone. I was so shocked.

Date: 2007-12-12 04:04 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] brotherflounder


Um...it couldn't have been said friend or someone else living in the house...could it?

Date: 2007-12-12 04:40 pm (UTC)
brotherflounder: (Default)
From: [personal profile] brotherflounder
Ugh. I'm gonna go find the brain bleach now.

Date: 2007-12-12 04:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kukla-red.livejournal.com
Yeah, that's kind of how I felt. I had to try really hard to erase it from my head. I love these people dearly but that was WAY more information than I needed.

Date: 2007-12-13 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com
Do you think maybe they got PWNED and someone was using them to store wareZ/prOn?

Date: 2007-12-12 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallconsmate.livejournal.com
*sighs* a dear friend of mine died sept 10..yeah THAT sept 10.

her parents would not let anyone "clean" her computer before they moved her things back home to pa from fl. we begged them to...

she was NOT the squeaky clean person they thought she was. and i'm sorry they had to see the *ahem* quality of stuff she had saved.

Date: 2007-12-12 09:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kukla-red.livejournal.com
Ouch. There are some things that family members just don't need to know about your personal life.

Date: 2007-12-12 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fallconsmate.livejournal.com
exactly so. and because she labeled the files "financial crap" to keep her son from poking around in it...

*shudders* not a pretty picture.

Date: 2007-12-13 11:46 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] trixtah.livejournal.com
Erm, my docs in the roaming profile? Someone hadn't heard of group policy and redirecting the My Docs to an appropriate location, eh?

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