COMPUTER REPAIR

Has anyone here who repaired other people's computers ever found something interesting?

Yep some mods and the like even saw a external drive being used as a internal drive with internal usb hub and all that lol.

some interesting custom bios
mostly its the same old shit.

lots of people i know still use IDE drives with adapters

videos of client hiring a prostitude, tranny porn on a CEO's machine, a teacher (client) with a weird scat video of themselves. People need to not save that shit on enterprise assets. Ridiculous.

child porn and or snuff porn. more than once, and entirely by accident. I always call the authorities when I see that nonsense.

kid with "gayming" computer, storing the os on a 10k rpm HDD, and the games on an ssd.

couple strange liquid spills, best were a macbook with bleach damage, and a thinkpad that got peed on. i wore gloves on the thinkpad and threw it in the trash once i pulled the hdd. the macbook was a couple of hours of board cleaning but ended up being functional.

>entirely by accident

as in they say "MAKE SURE YOU KEEP MY PICTURES" and i verify that they open and i see that kind of shit

Were those brainlets old men?

>jizz on the Keyboard

OP said "other people's computers"

Back in the Windows 98 days.
DELTREE c:\progra~1
See lots of internet shortcuts to lesbian porn websites scrolling past.

one time a woman, the rest were men

i will never as long as i live forget finding this

"please stay in our botnet its making your software free please we beg of you"

A couple years ago I was brought an old SGI workstation that wouldn't output anything to the display and I ended up having to buy a new graphics card on eBay for it. For anyone here that doesn't know, SGI was a company that made really high end media production hardware and software that cost tens of thousands of dollars in the 90s and early 2000s. You can't just buy new parts from SGI since they stopped selling it over a decade ago, and so I had to buy used parts. Nearly all of the hardware is custom and it uses a MIPS CPU. Every bit of software from the BIOS up to the OS is custom, and so it's tricky to work with. They run an OS called IRIX that's based on System V UNIX. Probably one of the coolest repairs I've done but I had to consult Nekochan to even know where to begin.

I've found a lot of strange porn on other machines. One woman had a lot of clown porn all over the desktop. Like people dressed as clowns jerking it and stuff. I've also seen animal porn and cheese pizza, so I called up the non-emergency number for the local police department and they took the entire machine and all the disks.

well, that's what microsoft, google, facebook etc. do - using your computer to spy on you and earn money from you.

I would prefer an anonymous web crawler to the things the privacy breakers do, but that's probably some piece of shit malware / clickbot that should be immediately deleted.

I once repaired a printer and found an abacus bead in it. It was my printer and to this day I have no idea how it got in there.

I would bet my ass that if you choose to uninstall it, it will absolutely not actually uninstall it.
Every single time I had the misfortune of installing a piece of shit of the sort by accident, the only solution was to format. Some of those pieces of shit even rewrite every shortcut in your system adding parameters to open shit, it's sick.

>I always call the authorities when I see that nonsense.
Keep doing gods work, user.

trust me when i found that and most of the other shit in that machine i just startrd over it was too far gone

Is snuff porn illegal?
Or am I mistaking what is?

snuff is killing someone on video. so yes, it's illegal- murder is generally illegal.

It doesn't really follow that snuff is illegal just because murder is. There are plenty of videos of murder freely available online, and even broadcast on the news occasionally.

Mostly porn stuff, sometimes weird stuff like scat, trannie and bestiality.
The only weird stuff that happened to me was finding almost 4GB of hentai porn on a computer with a Hello Kitty's case from a daughter's client. I'd have blamed his dad right away till his teenage girl asked me "did you check the PC's files by chance?". I lied to her saying the problem was not on the hard drive but somewhere else and there was no reason to check it.
[spoiler]I copied all the files on my external HD.[/spoiler]

w...what kind of stuff was?

I found an open vnc port that ran as a hidden service on my friends computer and he had no idea about it. I also found a hidden folder containing gay porn

what about moist snuff?

was expecting pics with tentacle porn and other weird stuff, but all of them were just vanilla hentai

>and a thinkpad that got peed on.

holy shit i wonder if it's the same thinkpad as