In this tech support tale from around 2000, a vice president at a retail company panicked after misreading a Windows error message, believing a hacker called "General Failure" had infiltrated his computer. Sysadmin "Lee" quickly realised the message — "General failure reading Drive C:" — was actually a standard error indicating a failed hard drive, not a malicious intruder. He reassured the VP that no hacker was involved and arranged for a replacement disk and potentially a new PC.
