Grrr.....Somebody has been using my pc.

[NuclearNed]

I virtually never log off my pc or turn it off; instead I always just lock it. Generally, I don't have to worry about people using it because I have a very private office in the corporate office building on my company's campus.

Last night one of the grunt hourly production workers on 3rd shift decided to sneak into my office and use my pc. Since it was locked, he apparently hit the hardware reset button, losing everything that was open. This guy had no legitimate reason to be in my building, much less my pc. When I logged in this morning, of course it showed the name of the last person who logged in. The production personnel aren't the brightest or most educated people, so I am guessing that he didn't know that he had left obvious tracks. I haven't looked at my pc real closely, so I don't have a clue as to what he was doing. I think I might look at his profile that WinXP created to see if I can gather some information.

I am incredibly angry about the whole thing. I have already alerted my boss, the network manager, and our IT security guy. Don't you hate it when crap like this happens?

 

[dirtylimey]

Leaving your PC 'locked' overnight with work open is never a good idea. Updates are generally pushed at stupid hours which can trigger a restart of your PC, or power failure could shut your machine down too. Log off or shut down dude.

Probably the guy was bored and wanted to get on the internets.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: dirtylimey
Leaving your PC 'locked' overnight with work open is never a good idea. Updates are generally pushed at stupid hours which can trigger a restart of your PC, or power failure could shut your machine down too. Log off or shut down dude.

Probably the guy was bored and wanted to get on the internets.

I never leave anything open without saving first, so I'm confident that I didn't lose anything. Its just the whole principle of rebooting someone else's pc knowing that something is open that bothers me. I don't really care about updates because I'm an admin, and I do all of my own anyway.

 

[ojai00]

I am pretty sure all he did was surf the Internet for some porn. It will be a good idea to clean your keyboard with some alcohol

EDIT: You can also change the power setting to do nothing when the power button is pushed. Most computer illiterate people are not smart enough to know that you have to hold down the power button for about 10 seconds before it turns off.

 

[mcvickj]

If this guy doesn't have no legitimate reason to be in your building / office why does he have the access? I'm guessing your buildings are all keyed the same?

At the place I work at they only give out keys to a very select handful of people. Everything else is accessed by a key card. Very easy to control access from door to door.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: mcvickj
If this guy doesn't have no legitimate reason to be in your building / office why does he have the access? I'm guessing your buildings are all keyed the same?

At the place I work at they only give out keys to a very select handful of people. Everything else is accessed by a key card. Very easy to control access from door to door.

Due to security restrictions, I can't really tell you how he got into this building. Lets just say that it was no problem for him.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I virtually never log off my pc or turn it off; instead I always just lock it. Generally, I don't have to worry about people using it because I have a very private office in the corporate office building on my company's campus.

Last night one of the grunt hourly production workers on 3rd shift decided to sneak into my office and use my pc. Since it was locked, he apparently hit the hardware reset button, losing everything that was open. This guy had no legitimate reason to be in my building, much less my pc. When I logged in this morning, of course it showed the name of the last person who logged in. The production personnel aren't the brightest or most educated people, so I am guessing that he didn't know that he had left obvious tracks. I haven't looked at my pc real closely, so I don't have a clue as to what he was doing. I think I might look at his profile that WinXP created to see if I can gather some information.

I am incredibly angry about the whole thing. I have already alerted my boss, the network manager, and our IT security guy. Don't you hate it when crap like this happens?

Set up your PC to prompt for a password at startup AND set a password in the bios.

Not secure against hackers, but secure enough to stop the average sneek.

 

[loup garou]

Ask your IT guy why you don't have GPOs set restricting local log on rights on workstations...assuming Windows domain here.

 

[amdhunter]

I turn off my work pc every night. And even if someone else logged into my pc, their account (assuming it wasn't an IT person with admin pass) would be locked down lovely.

 

[franksta]

After the reboot did it not prompt for a password to login? Or he had a login for your machine? I'm confused.

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: franksta
After the reboot did it not prompt for a password to login? Or he had a login for your machine? I'm confused.

He had a domain account that he used to log in.

 

[Crono]

I use pGina so I can lock my pc without shutting it off and display a message/logo saying "don't touch my computer...I can see you!"

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: franksta
After the reboot did it not prompt for a password to login? Or he had a login for your machine? I'm confused.

He had a domain account that he used to log in.

Novell or Microsoft?

 

[NuclearNed]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: franksta
After the reboot did it not prompt for a password to login? Or he had a login for your machine? I'm confused.

He had a domain account that he used to log in.

Novell or Microsoft?

MS