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Found porn at a work server

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I have had to delete stupid stuff stored on our servers before...MP3s, downloaded movies, etc. I don't usually report it, I delete it off the server and surprisingly never hear back from the people asking to restore files....nor do they upload things anymore. I have also seen 1 or 2 people with porn on company PCs (not servers). I delete the stuff and tell them "you better keep you machine clean from now on if you know what I mean"

I have never reported anyone though. I mean maybe the person has a problem, who am I to judge?? I think if you report someone for having legal porn you are probably a hypocrit and should think about all the stuff you've done wrong that could have gotten you fired....unless your name is Dwight Schrute and you never did anything bad at work.
 
Originally posted by: drum
The worst I have come across is having someone call me that they needed help with outlook. I say ok and that I will remote their PC and look at it in a couple minutes. I remote in and she was having quite the dirty conversation on yahoo messenger. Brilliant

Edit: halfway to Lifer! i'll be there by 2015 :laugh:
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Until they reset the counts after the vBulletin Migration 🙂
 
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: MrMatt
I can top everyone here I think, well my mom can. She works at a retirement community, in dining services. They have a small server set up, with a few different user accounts for the various staff. They don't set quotas since there's only a few people using it. Well recently during one of the meals the server starts to get bogged down for some reason. They can't figure out why. It's messing up all the meal services for a couple days. Finally the server is basically at a stand still, the thing is completely out of space, they can't input any more records of transactions. So the techs come in, and under the matri d's account they find a couple TERABYTES of transexual gay porn. He had filled up the entire server with it. He was apparently fapping to it between meal services every day.
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wait, how big is the food service that you need multi terabyte servers???
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Surprisingly large. It's a very large community.
 
I was at work and copied a self extracting file named DLL.exe. I placed it in the system32 folder. When folks in the know went Start/Run/Dll file would unpack a folder on C: called games. It was filled with various games that didn't need to be installed you just ran various exes. When done you deleted C:\Games and all was good. Went for about 2 years until someone forgot to erase. Next day company came around and put a block on all 3.5 floppy ports.
 
WTF have a little self control... is it too much to ask for them to do it in the privacy of their own homes?
 
Originally posted by: TheNinja
I have had to delete stupid stuff stored on our servers before...MP3s, downloaded movies, etc. I don't usually report it, I delete it off the server and surprisingly never hear back from the people asking to restore files....nor do they upload things anymore. I have also seen 1 or 2 people with porn on company PCs (not servers). I delete the stuff and tell them "you better keep you machine clean from now on if you know what I mean"

I have never reported anyone though. I mean maybe the person has a problem, who am I to judge?? I think if you report someone for having legal porn you are probably a hypocrit and should think about all the stuff you've done wrong that could have gotten you fired....unless your name is Dwight Schrute and you never did anything bad at work.
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Not a bad idea, as long as it stops.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: TheNinja
I have had to delete stupid stuff stored on our servers before...MP3s, downloaded movies, etc. I don't usually report it, I delete it off the server and surprisingly never hear back from the people asking to restore files....nor do they upload things anymore. I have also seen 1 or 2 people with porn on company PCs (not servers). I delete the stuff and tell them "you better keep you machine clean from now on if you know what I mean"

I have never reported anyone though. I mean maybe the person has a problem, who am I to judge?? I think if you report someone for having legal porn you are probably a hypocrit and should think about all the stuff you've done wrong that could have gotten you fired....unless your name is Dwight Schrute and you never did anything bad at work.
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Not a bad idea, as long as it stops.
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ya, good point. if it happens more than once....after I warn them, then ya, I'd go to HR and report something. Not neccessarily to get anyone fired, but to cover my ass as well.
 
Originally posted by: TeeJay1952
I was at work and copied a self extracting file named DLL.exe. I placed it in the system32 folder. When folks in the know went Start/Run/Dll file would unpack a folder on C: called games. It was filled with various games that didn't need to be installed you just ran various exes. When done you deleted C:\Games and all was good. Went for about 2 years until someone forgot to erase. Next day company came around and put a block on all 3.5 floppy ports.
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My friend used to play warcraft 2 with his other friend in the department by keeping the game stored on their zip drives and running off that. One of the good things about mac OS in those days were fairly self contained applications where it did not require an install. When someone would come by, they just pressed eject on their zip drive.
 
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: MrMatt
Originally posted by: sdifox
wait, how big is the food service that you need multi terabyte servers???
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Surprisingly large. It's a very large community.
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so what happend to the Matre D'?
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canned. They let some pretty terrible things happen there, but apparently hardcore transexual porn crosses the line.
 
11 years ago after our network manager got fired for embezzlement, I found about 20-30 gigs of porn...

Here's the catch, it was all downloaded over 56K on his dedicated dial-up line!!! (probalby slower because you couldn't get 56K in those days).
 
Just delete it and mention it to him in passing that it's a bad idea. You have now made a friend in the company who owes you his / her job and no longer dl's porn
 
lol, had a professor hook up his laptop for a presentation and on his desktop were 1 or 2 obviously porn sounding vids.. at work, we've had customers send in screenshots of their error message and you'll see in the taskbar there are porn websites..
 
My syadmin was retrieving files off somebody's computer so it could be re-imaged. He found a directory full of porn. He didn't have to look hard, it was just there and labeled nicely. This is a "Christian" company (or so the owners like to project), he's one of the family members, and he is the company Compliance Officer. Too funny.

I had him leave the files alone, that is a discussion I don't need to have right now.

Edit: On a related note, if you're going to install games, don't install it to the C: drive of the Terminal Server where IT can easily find it and see who the owner is.
 
Originally posted by: alchemize
11 years ago after our network manager got fired for embezzlement, I found about 20-30 gigs of porn...

Here's the catch, it was all downloaded over 56K on his dedicated dial-up line!!! (probalby slower because you couldn't get 56K in those days).
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That's reasonably impressive that he committed himself to finding that much and had the patience to download it all. 20-30gigs was a pretty decent chunk of space 11 years ago too...
 
Originally posted by: alchemize
11 years ago after our network manager got fired for embezzlement, I found about 20-30 gigs of porn...

Here's the catch, it was all downloaded over 56K on his dedicated dial-up line!!! (probalby slower because you couldn't get 56K in those days).
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Geezus, dial up PORN?!?!1 That'll kill a boner, fer sure. :evil:

q]Originally posted by: oogabooga
That's reasonably impressive that he committed himself to finding that much and had the patience to download it all. 20-30gigs was a pretty decent chunk of space 11 years ago too...[/quote]
One of two must be true...
1. His D/L occured at night, "off hours", and that explains why his comp- was always on and that line always busy....

OR

2. Chaffing.... No lube lasts as long as it takes to D/L @ <56k to completion. :shocked:

Sorry bad pun.
 
Originally posted by: amdhunter
Originally posted by: DisgruntledVirus
Originally posted by: moshquerade
guy on another site that i know lost his job for looking at porn on the company's computer on an internet messageboard. he was an attorney for a bank. : /
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Which is why I'm a fan of not being able to put direct pictures in posts on AT forums....

Originally posted by: amdhunter
This is why I only use remote desktop from my work PC. I can browse all the porn I want, and no one is the wiser...although I really don't enjoy porn anymore. 🙁

ATOT is my porno nowadays.
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You realize how bad of an idea that is?

How difficult is it to not look at porn for 8 hours a day mon-fri (or whatever your schedule is)? Are you THAT into porn?
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See bolded. I actually rarely look at porn anymore unless someone links to it...lol
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Too bad dNor is gone...
 
Originally posted by: oogabooga
Originally posted by: alchemize
11 years ago after our network manager got fired for embezzlement, I found about 20-30 gigs of porn...

Here's the catch, it was all downloaded over 56K on his dedicated dial-up line!!! (probalby slower because you couldn't get 56K in those days).
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That's reasonably impressive that he committed himself to finding that much and had the patience to download it all. 20-30gigs was a pretty decent chunk of space 11 years ago too...
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In 1998 HD's were ~15 gb or so on the large side of things. Thats 1-2 hd's or more (3-4 even), and the company didn't notice that missing? 😕

That's kind of sad, but then again if he was a network manager then he most likely had more access to be able to hide that stuff.
 
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