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* Japanese council worker in 750k smut site pornathon

Jesthar

Is it just me... 

...or does anyone else think the PFY is not the type to take this kind of challenge lying down?

Secretgeek

Like a monkey in a zoo. 

Boffin

I'm surprised it took a virus for this to come (sorry) to light.

Surely the cleaners would've piped up when his workstation began to look like a pissed up Spiderman had been practising his webby shooting skills.

Goggles required.

Craig McNeil

No1! 

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Bah that's nothing I once worked for The Register and got through two million of Lindsay Lohan nipslip websites in just three weeks.

Ernest

Blue Peter Badge! 

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Can we make a collective effort to send that man a medal or the ultimate blue peter badge!

Test Man

So... 

Alert

... they didn't notice the increase in downloads from 1 IP address from their server logs before?

*rollseyes*

Steve Evans

20 a minute? 

Coat

Wow, I'm impressed by the capacity of his pipe!

It's the one with the Ben Dover film Co logo on the back.

Anonymous Coward

Thumbnails 

The 750,000 is probably total downloads, so it would include lots of thumbnails.

Sarah Bee

Re: Blue Peter Badge! 

(Written by Reg staff)

Hur hur. 'Peter'.

Alex

Health & Safety - now wash your hands 

Joke

no wonder its customary to bow rather than shake!

Les Matthew

@Jesthar 

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"...or does anyone else think the PFY is not the type to take this kind of challenge lying down?"

The PFY has the matter firmly in hand.

Niall

pop,pop,pop,pop,pop,pop,pop,pop,pop 

oh no someones coming, close god damn you. A popup blocker would probably have reduced this figure to one page a day.

Tom Turck

Employee of the Month 

Black Helicopters

Impressive accomplishment. He should be awarded employee of the month for such persistence, not demoted. Imagine surfing porn at work until you have gathered enough malware that the system is unusable. Lets hope he also had a huge database of other peoples' financial and personal information on his computer as well, that is now in the hands of the Russian Business Network.

Lisa

I've done better! 

Lol. I once worked for a small company and managed to download about 50.000 porn pages every day. Then again, my Boss approved this too, since I was working on a web spider application that was searching all over the Internet for webpages with certain keywords on their page, and for stress-testing I used words like "porn", "sex" and "Hilary Duff"...

Nick Pettefar

Something Fishy 

10,000 grumble pages a day is impossible. Unless the mark is downloading automatically he cannot be looking at so many pages. There is something, most likely something rather large, missing from this story. I think it has been made from the headline rather than the opposite.

If he spends ten hours a day in his office, 10,000 pages is only 3.6 seconds per page. Not long enough to wank to (unless he's accelerated his body like in Star Trek) and quite a number of those pages will take longer than that to appear on his screen.

I wonder what is really going on here. Some trick played on him by a rival worker with some computing skills maybe? Someone in the IT department making a colossal mistake? I wonder how they have calculated this? Did they accidentally include the whole council's records?

Anonymous Coward

Twenty pages a minute? 

Coat

Come on, that's just not possible. He must have had a click-fraud bot running on his machine long before the virus that actually drew attention to him.

Otherwise, he should have been the first human to die of a simultaneous combination of RSI and dehydration ....

Anonymous Coward

this guy 

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This guy is anons new hero.

Tom

pron pwning 

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I can only salute this man for singlehandedly making my friday, knowing that there is someone out there with a bigger problem than I.

Mark Otway

Sounds to me like..... 

Boffin

....he's just kicked off an auto-download with an offline browser (like Webreaper </shameless plug>) that spiders webpages. They can download thousands of pages per second....

Richard

[Gets the calculator out] 

(And not just to enter 5318008 and look at it upside down ;)

It's actually 20 sites per minute during his peak in July. Still 9 per minute for the 9 months is still pretty impressive.

preethi

Complaints on the raise... 

Boffin

... about the broadband speeds we have available in the Blighty.

DV Henkel-Wallace

bah that's nothing 

Paris Hilton

When I was young we had to download our porn by handing around stone tablets. And even _then_ we all managed to beat that total. Daily!

Young whippersnappers, grumble....

Paris because she can beat that routinely, as downloadeuse and downloadee.

bws

obviously I'm missing something... 

Paris Hilton

but it sounds like this guy just needs a girlfriend....

Anonymous Coward

@Test Man 

Linux

"... they didn't notice the increase in downloads from 1 IP address from their server logs before?"

What makes you think that bloke was the only one? He was just the poor sod who caught the virus. And then, they didn't sack him - well, they hardly can fire all staff.

The only thing that puzzles me is it's a Friday's Lester story and there actually _is_ an IT angle.

EAfH

Penguin. Because it's nude.

Christoph

See, that's what happens 

Paris Hilton

... if you answer all those viagra and penis enlargement spams

Big Al

One every three seconds? 

Alert

That's what I call a reduced attention span...

James O'Brien

My hero 

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All I have to say to this is daaaaamn

J-Wick

@Secretgeek 

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Eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww......

Steve

Banned? 

Stop

but, but, but...

There hasn't been a Paris Hilton story for the last month. You lot are all too busy playing with your weebles and playmobils

Imr Ahm

southpark "over logged" 

Joke

"but it sounds like this guy just needs a girlfriend...."

Quoted by Randy Marsh: "once you've seen japanese girls puking in to each others mouths you can't just go back to playboy (women/girl friend)"

J

@Is it just me... 

Coat

"take this kind of challenge lying down?"

Nooooooo... This is a challenge to be taken standing up! Er... sorry. (not)

Anyway, as several pointed out, 3 pages a minute does not sound he had much fun with each one, so automatic crap vote I, to the porn Samurai.

J

oops... 

Paris Hilton

Did I write 3 a minute? Three a second, of course. Even less fun!

kain preacher

Only one 

Only one virus ?? Sounds lie he a had a ton of them . I'm surprised he didnt take down the entire network with spy ware viruses and other nasty stuff.

sauerkraut

bah that's nothing 

Paris Hilton

I once worked for [insert name of company] and got through [insert impressive number] of Lindsay Lohan nipslip websites in just three weeks!

ban me from paris hilton stories. please!

Dave

No wonder the Japanese 

Paris Hilton

Are stereotyped as having dodgy eyesight, with guys like this around.

Still everyone in the company now knows his name

But strangely no-one wants to shake his hand

Paris, 'cos I bet she was on there somewhere

Anonymous Coward

Sounds like he had a pop up problem 

Happy

boom boom

Shinobi87

not bad... 

Coat

especially onehanded

Anonymous Coward

shurly they should have noticed .. 

Shurly they should have noticed by the dried in yogurt stain all over the keyboard. As a former IT repair techie, I speak from a position of authority .. :)

We send out a brand new PC and it comes back in six weeks later with complaints of not fast enough and 30MB of porn in the cache. What's the matter can't the download rate keep up with your left hand .. ???

The Wanderer

@Dave 

Paris Hilton

"Still everyone in the company now knows his name

But strangely no-one wants to shake his hand"

Which reminds me... where IS Ivor Biggun when you really need 'im? This sounds like a perfect opportunity for him to whip it* out and toss one off**...

Paris, 'cos it's be interesting*** to find out how many of that impressive total featured her!

*his ukulele

**a song

**to be honest, not really THAT interested...

b shubin

Pavlovian response 

Paris Hilton

did somebody just ring a bell? why am i salivating with the urge to say "Lindsay Lohan nipslips" over and over and over...

PH, very apropos.

Tony Humphreys

I assume ... 

Coat

I assume they plugged in a new mouse to work on the machine.

Don't we all hate sticky keys.

inwinter

Or... 

He was running some sort of spider/crawler software to cache all the pages for later viewing... seems a more plausible explanation.

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