This sounds just a little bit too convenient. Since when does a computer repair shop suddenly
become a computer forensics lab? You are implying they routinely undelete and snoop through
everything they can, which is as likely as police going into a tizzy over a single deleted image.

Case file number, please.

In response to this post....the computer shop reported the image to the police, it was my brothers lawyers who hired the forensic computer experts and yes the police were in a tizzy over a single image!!! Yes as unbelievable as the situation seems it is all completely true and my reason for posting is to find others in a similar situation because I am sure there are more stories like this out there. Unfortunatley my brother was so naive that he did not realize that opening a file with CP was illegal when it was not marked as such and when he had no intention of viewing it intentionally or distributing it. CP is out there and it is wrong but something is wrong when my brother sits in his group meeting of sex offenders and he is now a felon for viewing an image and there are men sitting next to him with lesser misdeameanor sentences for violent **** and molestation. This is the honest truth as confusing and backwards as it may seem.

hey thanks for using this quote stickers, I obviously didn't notice it. I happen to know quite a few techs who do take the time to be nosy and look for files on a HDD while its in their shop...amazing what is sometimes found....and as far as I know it is the law in many places that a tech report such stuff.

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I don't know why mis-spelling your nick would be an insult but its not intentional. I mis-spell a lot of words and nicks are easy because some of them are just a jumble of letters - at least to me.



What little teenbopper porn I've downloaded was instantly shredded. With so many 18 year olds to watch why bother with a 16 year bopper and get ten years?

I did discover a trick to preview a file, perhaps its old hat to you guys. I wait until about 1% of the file is downloaded and go to my Incomplete folder. Usually I can play the file from there and interrupt the download if needed. Seems alot easier than asking LW to create a preview.

could have been real CP, or the law...as long as you don't go back or make a habit of doing such searches as visiting such sites I'm sure you're fine.

its really not a big issue to 'undelete' files...and view it like this...you get a machine in the shop, turn it on to even start to see what's up, and after it passes that test you run a file recovery program and proceed to work on another computer...then when the recovery program is done you see what's been found....there's really not issue with time as it were as you are working on another machine and getting work done...the most that's lost is initiating the program and then viewing what's been found...

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