Computer Repairmen, What's The Worst Thing You Found?

redditors who have had to work with other people's computers what is the most disturbing thing you have found half an inch of fluffy sticky white gunk coating every inch of the interior it was a podiatrist's office it was next to a sort of booth where they would grind the calluses off of old people's feet i didn't know that when i opened it up i just knew it smelled faintly of burnt hair ms paint being used to design the company logo buddy wanted me convert a hard drive to her external needed some copying and formatting he had tons of pictures of arctic sea life it was like every walrus seal etc on google image search was saved to his drive pretty sure he did it to duck with me was it originally his c drive i work as an accountant now but in a formal life i did a stint in tech support i remember getting a report that a printer a laserjet 5p was constantly jamming i arrived and started checking all the usual spots for paper fragments to get stuck in the rollers i flipped down the back cover and chunk of fried chicken fell out i still have no idea i had a customer who wanted me to find pictures of her son's penis on the computer story the sun had gotten in legal trouble in the past for sending unsolicited pictures of his dck to anyone and everyone he was not allowed to use the internet on the computer but as his parents were computer illiterate they had no idea whether or not he was doing it again and they wanted to find out i ended up writing her instructions and showing her how to search for herself as searching for pictures of her underage son's penis was in ethically murky waters it was a good thing i did too because she ended up finding some read a story on here about a geek squad type guy who found a bunch of gory murder scene photos turned out the owner was a homicide detective comma turned out the owner was a homicide detective oh thank god edit my dad has his own software company and does tech support for it in general computer repairs for anyone who drops by his office don't know what's the most disturbing thing he's come across but i was present when a man dropped off his mother's laptop dad booted it up and immediately encountered a common problem it was password protected so he asks the son for the password the son has to call his mom to get it the mom tells the son who has to relay it to my dad suck bid ck 2014 [Music] i was setting up my grandfather's printer and he warned me there's a lot of prn on there meaning the pc lol laughed and showed him how to delete his search history lol i had a girl asked to use my computer and i was like hell no there's so much prn on this thing she goes lol i don't care dart mofo you don't just do that to people pictures of graveyards at night and a guy with a hood and a torch walking in them and digging was probably a solo black metal artist plans detailing a prospective campus shooting on the same computer as very sweet emails to his grandmother he killed himself two months prior and i was recovering data for his family i did not tell them guy was severely overweight i found before and after shaving pics of his crotch and anus i couldn't even look him in the eye when i handed his computer back to him well you'd already peered into his brown eye damn that's unfortunate did computer work for eight years conservatively i serviced around a thousand machines a year i never went digging through the computer or anything but i stumbled upon cp three times we had a contact at the local fbi and there was the quarantine procedure to preserve chain of custody and all that however if you really want to gross people out in the office mention mr santa this guy had a super slow pc which was one of the reasons he brought it in from power on to being able to open the start menu was 45 minutes the problem is his desktop background was a full screen image of himself wearing a santa hat only a santa hat he was fat and had hundreds of warts everywhere god damn guy was having problems with his computer so he brought it into us for a virus removal standard stuff i set it up with a monitor keyboard etc and left it to boot up when i came back it had booted to desktop the background was a picture of a guy not the customer fully nude spread eagle my grandmother passed away recently and my 87 year old grandfather got a new girlfriend 27 years younger about two months later i was setting up a printer for his laptop and in his bookmarks he had a few links to viagra distributors so now i know that my grandfather gets laid far more often than i do and needs medication to get it up which makes sense i suppose old people duck all the time found a folder on my mom's computer titled since of my children found weird poetry and i chat logs of some guy offering to kill my wife and me holy sh t man you can't just post that and not elaborate our relations okay with your mother now my cousin worked for a summer doing i.t stuff for her mom's company she worked on a co-worker's laptop and discovered explicit emails indicating he was sleeping with her mom who was still married to her dad found a load of prn while working on a client's computer lots of browsers cuts and fragments of videos come to find out he wasn't obsessed with prn at all he was an editor for browsers edit great my top post is about prn was asked on to double check a bunch of computers for pictures and identifying information before recycling the towers found the win 98 machine that hadn't seen the internet in a very long time and on it was napster just like we choose to remember it along with icq yahoo messenger and compuserve a photo album full of polar bears with coke bottles photoshopped onto their hands like very badly done like 40 photos a relative once asked me to help find some files on her very cluttered hard disk when search failed me it started browsing through folders when i found it pictures of pillows every single type of pillow possible with lots of different colors and decorations there were literally thousands of pictures including some with what looked like bloodstains on them i placed my hand on the user's mouse and my hand stuck due to lube on the mouse computer itself could hardly function due to prn pop-ups yeah lube on the mouse yeah my friend's mom seven antivirus installed i he has six inch tall of toolbars edit i have to note that me and her son both has masters in computer engineering he always tried to educate her but she would just get mad he gave up 52 gbs of prn 1 tb of gore i never touched that computer again 1 tb of al gore i had no idea there was that much i had a co-worker that wanted me to come by his house to fix his pc this was like 15 years ago he takes me up to his bedroom not too unusual he was having internet connection issues i was so focused on checking cabling to his modem router etc under the desk that it took me a while to also notice next to the desk the camera on a tripod pointed at the bed it all clicked when i finally got the interwebs working again launched his browser and his homepage was some couples sharing kink website thought he was gonna be behind you jerk in it so you got off easy dart but apparently he didn't my grandma was having problems hey she's old not dead i work in a senior day center but i used to do software development so every now and then one of the other staff will ask me to fix whatever computer problems they're having one time one of the nursing assistants asked me to look at her laptop and had brought it in i told her i'd look at it during my lunch break different time from hers and she said fine so i open the thing up in the break room only to be confronted with a bunch of windows with very explicit pictures of her and her boyfriend the topmost picture being his bbc fortunately the only person in the room was across the table and couldn't see anything but i nope the hell out of there i gave her a little shti for potentially getting me fired but it was kind of fun to have her squirm knowing what i'd seen not me but a friend borrowed his lieutenant's computer while we were deployed to iraq found a lot of child prn on it pictures of his balls on soldiers while they were sleeping you know the usual yeah he's a level 2 sx offender now edit great my child prn comment blows up thanks guys this happened back in zero eight my friend had to borrow the computer to pull some forms off of it or something can't remember exactly he happened to stumble upon the treasure trove of nasty once that happened he grabbed the nearest guide to him and went straight to the talk captain happened to be there went right inside and shut the door from there mps were called and he was taken into custody they did the trial very quickly over there so word didn't spread around here had a few other friends escort him from jail to court then do suicide watch on him fun fact he went on record stating he was a woman trapped in a man's body as if it was a solid defense why he had all of that so easily accessible i have no idea i lent a friend the use of my laptop for a three-hour game of dnd he used a site called fur affinity to download lots of nazi dog prn drawings dopamine and nazi uniforms ducking each other neighbor asked to have their son's computer looked at because it kept blue screening i agreed and braced myself for a bunch of prn the kid was 14. nothing a crapload of video games but no prn what kind of 14 year old boy who has his own pc has no prn a kid who knows how to cover his tracks and rename his files the kind of 14 year old that knows it's possible to stream prn and not have them saved permanently to your computer for people like you to find a video of three guys helping a goater pay a woman they walk the guy out the door 15 minutes later the duck while i was in high school i also worked for the school district as a student computer tech my english teacher said her friend's computer was acting up and they wanted some help after some general tinkering with settings dumping caches defragging disks and uninstalling some bloatware i determined they could use a clean install of the os so i started to copy all their files to an external drive and was prepping a new partition to install the os on well you know those neat previews of the files you're transferring i started seeing nothing but weird 80s clown prn yeah did i mention i was doing this at my school too ended up just locking the computer in a closet for the remainder of the file transfers configured the computer with all their files and pretended i didn't see a thing when i gave it back i grew up in a smaller town i helped start a computer repair place in my teens a girl from school told her dad to bring his computer into our shop when it needed to be repaired upon doing tests and cleaning things up i found child prn but it wasn't random child prn it was this guy's daughters i could clearly recognize them the fbi was in the same building as us so i went upstairs at age 16 and told them what was going on they arrested the guy the same day turns out he'd been abusing them since they were toddlers i never said anything to the girl but i knew she knew i put her dad in jail she never said anything to me i have no clue if she is relieved or hated me i used to work at the apple store and one of my co-workers was running a diagnostic on an imac and found 100 s of gigs worth of child prn the store contacted the police and a sting operation was set up he was arrested at the store and later convicted co-worker needed to take some time off though as he had two little kids and was pretty traumatized by what he saw he had a folder on his computer entitled barely regal devoted to racy photos of sarah ferguson former duchess of york was helping my mom with something on her phone once did the thing to open all the apps running in the background so i could close them saw the naked picture of her that she probably sent to her boyfriend i'm ruined comma i'm ruined for every girl that is to follow up a paid version of winzip i recycle work computers frequently for the next employee that they get assigned to so much prn he had a folder of his obese girlfriend's nudes and szy folders with about 50 different objects inserted in various holes she was fond of hair brushes and not the handle end toolbars on internet explorer by the way fellow user have you heard about how cool reddit admin users is he is a true freedom fighter and has the dankest memes unlike our competitions at funky junk and nine gag of course he's nowhere near as cool as the rs credit mods we had a computer teacher that got arrested and thrown in jail for kitty prn ugly stuff since i knew things about computers i was put in charge of the school's networking and stiff even though i had no real idea what i was doing thankfully when i used his work computer none of that sht was on it what was might have been worse dozens of letters written to students and parents apologizing for inappropriate and or unwanted touching of students totally playing coy devious tea i hate to think of what he got away with had to help my grandma with her computer saw nudes of my 28 years old aunt so many questions don't want any answered guy brings his computer in cockroach scurried out of it and he squashes the bug later we open up the laptop it was full how many cockroaches are in a house that the computer is infested used to remove viruses mainly ransomware this one nice old lady's computer was full of choke prn like tons of it she had folders on the desktop with what i could only distinguish as different kinds of choke prn because apparently there's different kinds of choke prn i always wanted to go back to her and find out how her husband died some people's keyboards are just nasty according to my grandfather's search history he likes fat old [ __ ] truth be told an el gate with gummy bears i had an odd one where the user had passed away and the family wanted me to unlock his laptop for them just take off the windows password no problem what was interesting was this guy's history he was about 65 iac and a chronic end sturbator literally every day around midnight he would visit prn for about 30 minutes and this showed up in his history for months and months that is until his passing away that night he had stayed up viewing prn until 4am so a solid four hours of jerking it to some old-school thai bride stuff i don't know whether he knew he was going to die suicide or the m stir baiting so relentlessly did actually kill him as a couple hours later he was found deceased either way i removed his internet history and never told them was trying to fix my friend's mom pcbc she had downloaded some program loaded with spitware my friend is not very tech savvy so he just sat outside in the living room while i worked on it in her room yes as you can guess i found nudes in the download folder it was full of his mom naked but what worse was that there were photos of him giving her oral and vice versa i dipped the duck out of their house and their lives it edit okay everyone he not a contortionist but it's not hard for her to do a pov shot while he was down under a copy of grown-ups i hate that goddamn movie brother-in-law's ashley madison account awkward spanish teacher in high school had a laptop that was suffering from malware had a bad habit of looking at customers browser history and it turns out he was on sites featuring bestiality the guy looked at so much hardcore pr in that we set up a deal where i would fix his computer during spanish class and he would float me through the class with an a i never told him that i knew about his weird fetish and he extended the deal when i took spanish too honestly i still thought he was a really cool respectable guy even after the discovery he watched bestiality prn and gave a student an a for fixing his laptop riddled with viruses from said prn the word respectable doesn't exactly come to mind myself no kidding the guy had a folder full of pictures of me and when i asked he said stop messing with my private life i deleted it in front of him we are no longer friends not exactly on topic but my friend once gave me his old phone when he got a new one for christmas except he did not reset it worked on a guy's computer had to move files to the new system there was an unfathomable amount of mannequin prn pictures and various pictures of multi-ethnic blow up dolls i have absolutely no idea of why there were so many pictures of mannequins and blow up dolls i knew his business was in buying and shipping stuff online but i didn't know there was a significant market for sx mannequins dialed up internet in 2016 first off i'm gay and was helping a rather attractive straight colleague transfer files from an old pc onto a computer i built for him found video of him ducking some chick didn't really see much but heard them talking and let's just say after i found it all i could say to him was i'll have what she's having he was sort of proud of it i guess as a mobile computer repair technician back in the late 90s when it actually paid more than mowing theirs longs an obese couple dropped off their computer as it was turning off after a few minutes upon openly i immediately saw the problem somehow a wire from the fan got caught in its blades and wasn't able to cool took that out then figured to ensure the problem was fixed see if there were any movies and let it play all the way though well instead ended up with photos of the woman inserting all kinds of random objects into her vegina and anus one of them was the sticky and stained mouse i was using when they came to pick up their computer i gave the best poker face of my life but in retrospect probably should have reset the recently viewed documents list on the start menu that was a dead giveaway internet explorer set as the main browser the shop i worked in we found a bunch of gay prn we took one of the pics of a bunch of naked japanese men washing a car and put it as our boss's wallpaper it was hilarious we also found a shitload of prn on a laptop that the guy tried to claim was his daughters yeah his 14 years old daughter we were all seriously dude edit not saying a 14 year old girl having prn is impossible i'm saying her father blaming her to a bunch of guys who couldn't care less who it belongs to evoke to say what response fourteen-year-old girls also enjoy prn a single image a man with a shirt no pants and a huge boner holding down a naked 3-4 year old girl it still makes me cry and sadly ill never get that out of my head ever he's in jail now at least the worst was at a cat lady's house there was a dead cat literally right in front of the computer desk it wasn't exactly recently deceased either there was also another cat lady who had about 15 dogs in one half of the house and 30 cats in the other she converted her bathtub to a litter box i had to help do a discovery search on a computer for an attorney that worked in crimes against children saw one thumbnail and told them i was not going to be searching through the pc manually anymore i'm really blown away by how many people here are admitting to searching through people's personal documents most malware removals do not require manually searching through the documents folder and a simple scan will suffice if it's right on the desktop well no one can blame you while you guys are applauding those that turned in people with child prn and rightly so keep in mind that they're probably reading through customers save tax returns personal letters nude of their spouse etc so make sure to always encrypt anything personal before you have someone work on your computer bible versus a small business inside of a large business that wears geeky attire child prn it was reported and he was arrested so a small business in a large business got busted for their large business in small business found that former contractor who thought he wiped his hard drive didn't wipe his hard drive it's a good thing i didn't sell off his computer to get it off the books there are bank statements scanned photos of ites pictures emails i have it sitting in our office until i can pull the hard drive and destroy the data edit i guess what is so disturbing is he was a techie really didn't want me to have his data had a whole week to turn in his computer wiped the main drive but didn't fully wipe the backups [Music] [Music] you

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