How can I block users at work connecting to my PC?

[thatsright]

How can I block users from accessing my pc at work?

I work in IT and have some sensitive information on my pc. How can I block other users in the company from getting access to my pc and snooping around? I want to block everyone (including the many domain admin users in the IT Department). If a user has the rights, all they need to do is type in \\pcName\c$ and they are on.

We have the built in windows firewall turned of by default.

 

[blackangst1]

Uh, its not your PC first off. If you have data that needs to be protected you need to talk to your system admin about it. This statement worries me:

I want to block everyone (including the many domain admin users in the IT Department).

It aint gonna happen.

 

[Snapster]

Any domain admin can happily reset any permissions you set anyway so it's pointless trying to prevent them that way. Whilst you could install a wirewall to block the necessaries, I think your IT dept would seriously frown on that. A proper way would be to look at either encryption or storing everything on an external drive than you can use as and when you want.

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: thatsright
How can I block users from accessing my pc at work?

I work in IT and have some sensitive information on my pc. How can I block other users in the company from getting access to my pc and snooping around? I want to block everyone (including the many domain admin users in the IT Department).

This is a joke; right?

 

[MrPickins]

Hiding pron on your work laptop?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Truecrypt

 

[fr]

Use a flash drive and keep it with you. What's so important you have to keep it from IT?

 

[thatsright]

Originally posted by: fr
Use a flash drive and keep it with you. What's so important you have to keep it from IT?

Its not so much I'm hiding anything (well some stuff, hehe. but nothing serious like porn or anything). I just don't want some of the guys playing a prank on me and start changing my homepage or other settings on me and not be able to change back-which has already happened.

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: thatsright

Originally posted by: fr
Use a flash drive and keep it with you. What's so important you have to keep it from IT?

Its not so much I'm hiding anything (well some stuff, hehe. but nothing serious like porn or anything). I just don't want some of the guys playing a prank on me and start changing my homepage or other settings on me and not be able to change back-which has already happened.

BEEN THERE MAN.

I usually just modify the permission on the C:\ drive or whatever folder I need to just allow me to have access to it. (Typically just the mydocs folder).

I'll let you do the research, but there are services you can disable too that will stop users from being able to edit your registry and some other settings as well. That's about all I'll go in to.

We play pranks on each other all the time and yes, there are some instances where someone wishes they hadn't done something but oops, too late. Stuff gone now.

 

[sportage]

Yeah...
Just what is it your up to???
We want access.

True story:
Long time ago in the days of 8088 (??) DOS pc's,
I was allowed to use the managers pc in the evenings, at work (I worked nights).
Discovered dial-in BBS boards and those free games you could DL.
Would download games, copy to a floppy, delete the file,
and take the games home to see if they were any good.
300baud modem at work. None at home on my first pc.
ANyway, I found a fun space type shootem up game, but lost it on the floppy.
When back at work, I tried to find the BBS and game to re-download.
Could not remember its name or the BBS it came from.

I also had downloaded a little utility that looked at the data bits on a hard drive.
Lots of garble if data, but text was readable.
These were disk files that had been removed or deleted, but actually still existed
on the drive as long as new data had not written to that disk area.
When deleted, the data or files were just tagged as available space.
The deleted file appeared to be gone but actually might still be there and could be recovered with this little DOS utility. And only if no new data was written to that space.

So there I was looking at deleted data still remaining, on the hard drive, trying and hoping to find my little game and recover it.
When scrolling thru all this disk data, came into some deleted text. Readable text.
It was the log file from a BBS chat. From the manager that worked days.
He was married, in his 40's and had like 4 kids.

Problem was, this BBS chat text file was from some Gay BBS chat.
His login user name was NEW TO THIS.
Yep! It was the manager. Dialing into Gay BBS boards and chatting
with Gay men. Hummmmmmmmmmmm
I never said a word... to anyone...
He had the "keep a log" option turned on, but thought he was deleting these text chat logs.
Little did he know.
(sorry for the book, but this post reminded me of that. Back in the 1980's)

 

[TheKub]

Well if the rest of your department is incompetent you can simply remove the domain admins group from your local admin group. That would stop me for a few min until I figured out what you did.

You could reset the local admin password and get out of the domain.