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While at QWE Computers, we had our share of regular customers. These were the ones that would call a few times a week for help, and that were in often enough that if they had a quick problem, we’d usually throw their computer on the bench, fix it while they waited, and wouldn’t bother charging. Tom, as we’ll call him, was one of those customers.

And so it was that, one Saturday afternoon, Tom dropped his computer off saying that he had been watching a movie, then got up to go to the bathroom and when he came back, it wouldn’t play anymore. We told him it would be quick, so he thanked us and said he’d run out for a coffee and come it later that afternoon.

After he left, I grabbed the machine and hooked it up on the bench. It booted fine, and the first thing I did was open up Windows Media Player. It opened fine, and showed three files in the playlist – something to the tune of clip_01.avi, clip_02.avi, clip_03.avi. I double clicked one, then nearly immediately killed the window.

As it turns out, those three clips were very, very graphic porn, and of course, I had the speakers cracked up to make sure the sound worked. Boy, did it ever.

After assuring my boss, Todd, that it was Tom’s computer and everything was alright, and listening to him explain what happened to a customer who heard from the front.

So, with the computer obviously working, I started to unhook it when a thought came to me: Wait a minute. He said he was playing a video, then got up to go to the bathroom….

After that, I started disinfecting Tom’s computer whenever he brought it in.