Today, I tried to download some network-monitoring software for the office as I suspect that one of my staff has been constantly downloading torrents. It wouldn't download because someone was using all the bandwidth. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, discovered that all the viruses I have gotten on my computer at work haven't been from anything I've done, but because my boss has secretly been using it after hours to download or watch porn so he wouldn't risk getting a virus on his own computer. I've lost 3 major projects due to this. FML
Today, I was on a conference call and digital meeting at work when I got bored and started surfing the Internet. Little did I know that my desktop was being shared. My boss was on the call and saw everything. FML
Today, I let my friend use my computer to download some music. Now, my computer has 6 viruses and 4 songs, all of which I hate. FML
Today, as always, my boss is too cheap to buy more than 2 profiles for a critical software. Six employees compete in a daily thunderdome to log on and do their work before getting kicked off and losing everything. FML
Today, I increased my internet plan to help speed up downloading a giant 600GB file. After paying for the upgrade, I got a notification that the plan change wouldn’t be effected until 24 hours later. Of course, it actually upgraded mere moments after the file download had already completed. FML
Today, I heard a student in the class I assist having trouble with a download. I walked over and showed him how to save to his flash drive, and how to use 7z to unzip said file. I then found out I'd just assisted him in downloading a half gig of porn during class. FML
Today, I got two viruses on my laptop. One was a fake anti-spyware program that cluttered the screen with pop-ups. The other opened the browser repeatedly, each time to a generic porn site. This all conveniently happened at work, on a projector and during a meeting. FML
Today, we spent an entire day without being able to do work because our internet connection was down. Turns out, only the router had crashed and nobody bothered to reset it "to avoid doing further damage". FML
Today, my dad got a warning from our ISP for going well over their fair usage limit. I barely use our wifi, and I keep telling him he should password-protect our router to stop people leeching our Internet. He's blaming me anyway, and says I'm grounded until January. FML
Today, my internet was so slow I couldn't even load an internet speed test to see how slow my internet was. FML
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Top comments
Hiimhaileypotter 53
At least when you do manage to download it you'll be able to find out who's doing it!
lexiieeex3 32
Once it downloads you'll find the culprit and now at least you know there will be many opportunities to find proof against them.
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Comments (64)
Geeve95 11
OOOHH NOOOO!
thesmeagol 22
Ahh I see your office uses TDS Internet.
brivielle 15
your avatar fits your comment perfectly.
Khaleesi_26 30
If #16's comment said anything along the lines of "those filthy hobbitss" or "My precious", then yes his avatar would go well with his comment.
devildog562 33
It's really not that hard to look at logs to determine who is doing what...
metalwolf 17
Where are the logs? This FML makes it sound like there is no real IT department at OPs job or OP isnt one of the IT and probably shouldnt be installing said software. Im guessing OP has a SO/HO router that doesnt do logging or accounting so the only option would be to go from computer to computer and look at all the installed software.
metalwolf 17
Ran out of time to edit. I know you can look at the history on the web browser, but many browsers these days have "incognito mode" and if they dont, you cant at least clear your history.
devildog562 33
Logs are in the router and every single terminal had them . A lot of IT software just collects and graphs this data in a more readable format. I say this with a grain of salt because depending on the if you're using software or hardware firewalls there is tons more data so on and so forth without getting in to access control policies . Really it's not extremely difficult.... Edit : don't know a modern router especially at a business that doesn't log... If it's that small of a business there probably isn't more then 20 computers ....
ApacheC424 18
Even my home router (Linksys WRT310N) logs traffic. When I have an issue I check which local machine has the most entries, what external address they are accessing and then change the router settings to block that specific traffic. Anyone working in an IT department should have no problem doing something like that. Can even print out the log as evidence.
jaelynsanchez 11
Is it sad that I d on't understand what any of that is...
botanistjessica 24
Yes.
alimx 6
Get the mikrotik router. I was having problem with bandwith, but after using mikrotik i can control where all my connection will be going.
Mortoli 30
The Internet is for ****... You know he's downloading it lol.
laden_swallow09 35
"Why you think the 'Net was born? ****, ****, pooooorn!"
vikky538 29
its simple.just check the router connections and check the most active time logs...
trumpet8 6
I have no idea what I just read.
baxterlondon 10
its called use a bandwidth boot, I'm in 9th and know his to handle it
Ki11erC 18
Obviously you don't. Or you suffer from some seriously bad spelling problems
Grenith 21
have everyone step away from their computers. Then do a quick inspection.