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A good friend recently found out his girlfriend was pregnant when google autocomplete came up with 'symptoms of pregnancy'...

Has your googling been your undoing? Has someone found your gay porn stash? Have you had a Gary Glitter moment in PC World? Tell us how your computer has ratted on you.

(, Fri 10 Feb 2006, 10:58)
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Not me, others (and not the totally lovely Mrs. God, either)
So there I am, at my Mom's house, where my brother is currently residing. He's got no computer... but her laptop connects to AOL (poor thing). Anyhow, the AOL software was installed on Mom's account, so it only works properly there. So if you need t'internet, you need to log on as Mom. No problem, my bro's in like... er, well, an in thing.

However, he's also unaware of IE's history. Luckily, so is Mom. However, me, as a paid IT monkey, I *do* know about this. Cue one rather surreal convo with brother, along the lines of "FFS, if you're going to look at pr0n on Mom's laptop, at least use the copy of Firefox I installed for you..."

The other time I caught someone, I was working. I was on site somewhere, about 9 at night. I was none too pleased as I'd just discovered work's policy on overtime*. So there I am watching Stinger scanning every file on the hard disks of all of their Citrix servers. When the word 'obsession' goes past. Normally I'd assume it was the perfume, but did I mention I was bored and p!ss3d off? I checked. The file was 'analobsession.jpg' or similar. I did some more searching. I found that someone whose name I forget had spent a couple of hours clocking pics of young ladies (phew!) taking it up the wrong 'un. And then emailed the choicest ones to the rest of his office. Naturally, I told the Finance Director about it. I believe there were some readings of the Riot Act about that one.

Of course, all of my pr0n is carefully stored on dual 9GB SCSI drives at my house. And I never look at it from Mrs. God's computer. (I just post to b3ta from there).

/edit - Why are you all looking at me like that? Oh, all right then, I had to clean up my spare laptop before lending it to a friend. I'd been... er... researching driveby downloads on pr0n sites with it. Yes, that's it. Research. Not fwappage. Er, these aren't the droids you're looking for?

* - Policy is: 'You caused that virus attack that started four hours before you arrived at the customer's site by plugging in your (regularly scanned and patched) work laptop into their network. You will work 24 hour days until it's fixed, for no overtime and no expenses. And then come back here for a further bollocking on the subject.' Oh.
(, Mon 13 Feb 2006, 12:54, Reply)

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