[OFF TOPIC] Old people

[Ap4ss3rby]

Hello, I am new here, but don't you hate it when someone who gave you a computer for usage and doesn't notice any software and suddenly when he/she doesn't find software that wasn't there in the first place (office) they suddenly notice all the software and some even are plain files not programs and then they say you are harming their computer though most of it is tools or games.

 

[BIGBEARJEDI]

Oh yeah, old news to some of us who have been doing this for a few decades or longer. It's become part of the game--I've been accused of all kinds of things including putting stuff onto people's computers--including porn-- that definitely wasn't there when I first inspected the computer either at their home or my workshop. It's all part of the game I'm afraid. What's really fun is when your Customer threatens you with litigation over it.

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[ussnorway]

I make backup image of every clients system the first time I work with it... Lost count of how many times people called me back later to please put my backup image onto their now busted devices

 

[Axel PC]

I've seen some SICK stuff when I fixed people's computers on the side, lol.

 

[nmsuk]

I used to do computer forensics and some of the stuff I've seen has been horrific. Luckily those who have such stuff normally get caught. Never really understood why they'd take a computer with such stuff to any repair place.

 

[BIGBEARJEDI]

Me too, nmsuk! Have done that for years for several of the alphabet agencies. Yeah, you'd be surprised by the stuff I've found on user's computers in the IT world. Especially, executives, including senior executives (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, etc.). In the Fortune500 there are a surprising number of functionally illiterate executives using computers who think that their position and rank makes them immune to the laws and regs governing most netizen's use of computers. The stuff I've seen would make the Pope blush for sure. I've also gotten called to many homes of these types of executives, as they don't want their IT guys touching their computers, whether or not the computers are company-owned assets or they are their personal machines. So, they will often take their busted PC or laptops to an independent repair guy like me and somehow they do not even consider the fact that I will see absolutely EVERYTHING they've ever done or put onto that computer from the day they got it. Truly amazing. Repairing computers for powerful folks like this definitely requires 100% discretion. It's almost like they don't watch TV shows like NCIS, or CSI, etc. and have no clue as to what they are even doing...

BBJ