Today, my roommate used my PC without asking. Long story short, it's now infected with ransomware. The dissertation I've been working on for months is now encrypted, along with all the backups on my second hard drive. Now I have to pay the hackers $1,500 to get the decryption key. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my house was broken into and my computer was stolen. Fortunately, I have cloud backups of all my work; unfortunately, hardware prices have gone through the roof and I won't be able to replace that computer soon. FML
Today, I finally finished my 500 page manuscript and so went out to buy some paper to print it off. I get back home and find out my dad has infected my computer with a virus and the only way to save it was to wipe the hard drive, which he did. That script took me a year and I have no backup. FML
Today, my mom borrowed my computer without my permission and downloaded a virus. I came home to a blue screen of death. She refuses to admit fault and pay for a new computer. FML
Today, our computer system has irretrievably broken down due to viruses. My boss is the one who refused to get new antivirus software, but he’s still blaming me because I’m the computer guy and should be able to protect us from stupidly complicated viruses, "like the hackers in the movies." FML
Today, the new office IT guy figured the best way to get the virus off my computer was to wipe my entire hard drive. He was kind enough to back my data up and restore everything from the backups. Including the virus. FML
Today, my friend asked to borrow my new laptop to email his college professor. When he returned it, it had a virus on it, and I had to fish out two pubic hairs that were sticking out between the keys. FML
Today, my dad was sat on my laptop in the living room trying to learn how to do some rewiring around the house when he, and I quote, ”clicked on the thing.” My laptop is now riddled with so many viruses it’s basically a house brick. FML
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, my computer crashed and lost all of its data while I was making a back up. 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
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Top comments
King0fgames 18
Have your roommate pay the ransom, that is incredibly stupid. Hopefully you can find a way to track down those assholes.
Kalver92 16
That really sucks for you, but there is password protection for a reason. To keep unauthorized people especially family and room mates from using your computer without asking.
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Comments (120)
WriterB 3
Why are you paying anything? He got the ransomware on there so he should have to pay to get it off.
19years 5
Keep the latest version of everything important on USBs! I learned that one the hard way.
tyberious 1
Once you get that pesky notification gone (boot into safe mode with networking), you can download a utility called ShadowExplorer which will let you browse through your windows restore points, and if you're lucky it'll be there unchanged.
Moerighan 23
Uhhhh pretty sure you don't.
Hijacker101 12
I bet the roommate IS the culprit.
amsterdamgirl 20
that sucks diarrhoea infested, fly swarming, maggot crawling goat's ass
lemonlaide 9
Make your roommate pay for it! Even if you're trying to be nice it is their fault!
Oceanborn_fml 24
Passwords are a good idea, both on phones and pcs. And let that idiot of a roommate pay that.
Nezah 6
At that point you mise as well get yourself a nice PC
HeyImAmy 20
You shouldn't pay hackers anything because they want your money. You need to take your laptop to a place like GeekSquad at Best Buy and have your roommate pay for the repairs.