Monday, July 18, 2011

Porn magically appears on peoples hard drives.

When working on a computer, I love stumbling upon people's porn collections. What I love more is stumbling across them while the user is sitting there with you.

Usually, this happens when you are having to root out a virus or malware and are browsing shared media folders looking for rogue files. The typical user response is "How did all of that get on there? Did the virus put it there?" or "I have no idea where all of that came from". At this point, as non-judgemental IT people, we have to pretend that we are completely dense and say "Oh, yes I am sure it must have been the virus". What you don't do is offer to remove the files for them because that just causes an awkwardness that you do not want. The exception is if they tell you to delete the files, then you do.

Please do not assume that I am saying that this is the scenario covers all "porn stumble" situations. Mileage may vary. Sometimes you get people so proud of their collection they will show you favorites, which really can be awkward.

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