33 of the Wildest Things Seen by IT Workers

Computers are complicated things, and there’s plenty of ways to mess them up. But if you really want to do complete, untold and deeply confusing damage to a computer’s architecture, it almost always requires that you don’t totally know what you’re doing. Sure, a hacker can get into your system and make a real nightmare of things, but that’s nothing compared to the Gordian knot of malware and weird toolbars that a well-meaning elderly parent can install.
The electronic EMTs that are IT workers were called to an AskReddit thread to contribute the wildest world-wide-web enabled messes they’ve ever had to clean up. If you’ve got the stomach for absolute computational carnage, read on to hear about thoroughly strange e-emergencies from the world of IT.
After all, no cybersecurity in the world can overcome the curious clicks of the tech-unsavvy.
































