30 Crazy Things IT Experts Saw on Someone’s Computer

‘My CEO’s nudes’
30 Crazy Things IT Experts Saw on Someone’s Computer

IT technicians can see everything: that embarrassing password you’ve been using since high school, those Teams messages trash-talking your boss and, yes, all those videos you watch in an incognito browser that you think are private. They don’t want to see these things, it just comes with the territory.

One Redditor remembered the time he was called on to fix a coworker’s computer and turned it on to see that their desktop wallpaper was a selfie. The weird part wasn’t the fact that it was a selfie — it’s that they were full-on boohoo bawling in the picture.

When he pressed his coworker about it, they responded, “Everyone has pictures of themselves smiling. Why don’t we have other emotions in selfies?” 

The Redditor, rightfully, pointed at the screen and said, “Because of that!”

Other Redditors have shared some of their craziest finds while responding to IT tickets, including those involving bed bugs, a recipe Walter White would love and a romcom fantasy.

MylesH55 11y ago Fixed a computer for our principal back in high school. It was all pretty clean until we opened the recycle bin and found around 100gigs worth of 18 year olds and Russian mail order brides. It was interesting to say the least. + 358 Share ...
dont_worryaboutit139 7y ago A guy's master boot record had corrupted (Win XP iirc) so i fixed it with an install disk and checked that it now loaded up into Windows. There was no password set, so it went straight to the desktop. Cats. Cats everywhere. The cursor was a ginger cat, the icons were cats, the desktop background was a dark living room filled with cats. Cats. Caaaaaaaatttttsssssssssss 8 ...
Nukem1 7y ago A woman called saying she forgot her password. After I had removed the password she jumped on the computer and stated I knew he wwas cheating on me! Apparently it was the husbands computer and he was having an affair. Suffice to say I took my money and booked it out of there as quick as I could. 9 ...
frozenchocolate 6y ago Не was 22, and his search history looked like a middle schooler's... I'm talking kendall jenner nipple and dua lipa naked. + 113 Share ...
ringzero- 7y ago One of my guys was remotely working on a PC, he left the remote connection active for a few minutes while he was researching something. Sure enough, some dude logs in and starts looking in his pictures directory and there were tons, and tons of pictures of women/feet. We're not prudes or anything, but the computer we were working on is a 24/7 manned station that requires people to monitor surveillance cameras, buzz people in, etc. When he got fired he said My job gets boring. The funny part was he tried to file for unemployment and
Bike_shop_owner 7y ago While fixing up my dad's landlord/boss's computer, we discovered numerous white power pamphlets and power points. Turns out, she was nuts. + 312 Share ...
 7y ago My ex-inlaws computer took the shit, so I pulled the HD out and installed as a slave in my machine to recover old photos onto a CD (this was a long time ago). I searched all the pic file extensions and all the folders that had them popped up. One of the folders was named (ex wife's middle name and mother's maiden name). I clicked on it and found my ex wife's escort photos, profile documents, etc. Yeah, she left that little tidbit about being a prostitute out when we met and later got married. E: words
eddietwang . 7y ago My CEO's nudes. First day of the job. 76 ...
ThunderDuchess 6y ago Instructions on how to make meth. It certainly explained a lot about his behavior. Share 67 ...
KarpadorsScherge e 7y ago A customer of the place where i had an internship had a virus on his pc. The virus deleted everything that got installed after it. It was named Not a Virus + 460 Share ...
helveticaeffect 7y ago i found a bunch of flat earth and horoscope stuff on one of the computers in our HR department. belonged to a fairly normal well educated person. + 454 Share ...
Merax75 9y ago Edited 9y ago Lady at work brought me her USB drive from home and asked me to check if anything was on it as she wanted to copy a proposal onto it for a client (USB drives being disabled on the work PCs). I wandered back to my desk and plugged it in, gave it the ol' AV scan and opened it up. Just document1.doc. Thought I'd be helpful by telling her what it was as it was quite small. I really, really wish I hadn't opened that document. It was a letter to her ex asking
HoshiMaster 9y ago I once found a picture (drawing) of a lamb sitting on a bed of nails while carefully balancing a potted cactus on its head. I asked the client what is was for, and he said it was in a dream. + 111 ...
loztriforce 4y ago I found evidence of a coworker affair: naked pics of both of them at a hotel after a company party. Lots of pics. Also, screenshots of texts between his then-wife: seems she found out and was in the process of getting a divorce. It was really messy, them arguing about control over their kids. I sat the guy down and noted that while running backups I found a huge amount of personal data. Basically just said I found stuff that shouldn't be on company property, he turned white as a ghost. Told him I'd keep it between
kentuckyfriedweenis 7y ago Bedbugs in an overheating HP DV6k about 8 years ago. We left it memtesting overnight and in the morning the little buggers were coming out of the vents everywhere + 1.8K ...
Marz-_- 7y ago I opened a laptop once and the background picture was a buff naked dude in the shower. I just looked at the guy and said could you change your desktop, it's making me feel inadequate. 734 ...
parttimeadult 0 7y ago I hooked up with a girl from work and she asked me to fix her laptop. I found her wedding photos on there. Always check the ring finger guys. + 2.3K ...
sharkbait8 10y ago Had an elderly gentlemen bring in his computer when i was younger. Computer had a virus and needed to be cleaned up. couldnt do it so had to wipe and start again. Part of that was to back up his documents and pictures and scan them Separately. So copy them over and open a couple of them to make sure they were not corrupt. first one fine. pic of grand kids. Second one fine. pic of him and his wife. Third one. him in nothing but a leather corset and fishnet stockings. Wouldn't have been so bad
cssgtr o 4y ago Romantic movie posters where this guy had superimposed his face on the man and another со- worker on the woman. The female co-worker was a 60 year old woman, he was in his late 20s. 16 ...
rekniht01 7y ago I work IT. One time a few jobs back my manager, IT Head, was the absolute worst for getting malware. His machine had to be scrubbed every quarter. We had a conversation one time about how he was impressed by all of the music and movies he could for pennies from a website. Website turns out to be Russian based. A few days after our conversation the site is replaced with an FBI warning page saying the site was criminal. + 1.9K Share ...
TurnitOffAndOnAgain- 7y ago Employee's hard drive was full which is odd cause we dont save locally, took a look and he has a folder in his documents called 'New Folder' which was like 80gb worth of stuff opened it up and found so so so many videos of him and his wife. + 370 ...
Vyperhand 7y ago 1.5GB or so of morbidly obese naked women sitting on pizzas. Yup. No, there's no context or further explanation. + 2.2K ...
JPB10Master e 6y ago An article about how to suck your own dick. + 302 Share ...
Scoob1978 7y ago One of my responsibilities at anold job was to go through flagged IMs of coworkers. One guy tried to buy cocaine from another coworker and didn't even try to hide it by calling it candy or something. We also found out a married manager was sleeping with another employee through her angry IMs to him. I don't understand it. There is a big disclaimer when you in and everything. + 962 ...
collin3000 7y ago For me I always have though porn is a normal thing. but downloading 50 toolbars till you can barely see your screen or 20 different versions of the same majohg game makes me go WTF for sure + 6.5K Share ...
dumitraand 7y ago I found a folder on a friend's computer with autopsies and gruesome experiments. She seemed nice and cute. Turns out she had some weird fetishes. But at least we became closer at that point because I was the only one that knew. + 4.3K Share ...
keeblerElf1023 7y ago A co-worker of mine had his desktop wallpaper set to a selfie of him bawling his eyes out. I was so fucking confused. When I asked him about it, he said everyone has pictures of themselves smiling. Why don't we have other emotions in selfies? To which I responded, Because of that! while pointing at his monitor. + Share 6.4K ...
Remix73 E 7y ago Forget porn. This was someone who had the same computer for years and never understood folders. EVERYTHING on the desktop, + 14K Share ...
Toast_ . 7y ago . Edited 7y ago Call customer, remote into PC, open Windows Explorer and see drive titled Horse Porn. I don't know if he knew I saw it. Не at least didn't react. We agreed to reschedule though. Why a whole drive though??? + 1.9K Share ...
wipeuntilitbleeds 11y ago This is a little tame, but funny. A customer brought in his Compaq Presario and complained the DVD drive didn't work 'right' anymore. I found the tray door was cracked, covered in coffee, and there were plenty of coffee strains down the front of the tower. I honestly believe to this day that the urban legends are true and this guy was using his DVD drive as a coffee holder. + 702 Share ...

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