Is it possible for your company to monitor your internet browsing acitivities?

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Battousai001

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Is it possible for your boss/system administrators of your company to monitor or see/check you internet browsing activities? If it is, how would you know? is there a set-up or software requirement for your company to be able to monitor their employees surfing activities? what if your company is also subscribing to a broadband ISP? And lastly how easy is it to monitor your internet surfing activities given that your company is a small-to-medium size only with
50-100 employess only?
 
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Abhoth

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Yes.
You wouldn't.
Your admin would know, you wouldn't.
So.
Smaller the company the easier it is, depending upon the admin.
 
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TerryMathews

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Originally posted by: Battousai001
Is it possible for your boss/system administrators of your company to monitor or see/check you internet browsing activities?
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No, the information just magically gets from the internet directly to your monitor without touching anything in-between up to and including your hard disk.

Are you serious?

Temporary Internet Files, HTTP log if you're using a proxy/firewall/router, Internet history, if they pay the bill: access log from ISP.

And that's just the normal stuff, they could install monitoring programs in the background.

Bottom line: If your using a company computer, you should behave as though the boss is watching everything you do on that computer; the technology not only exists, it's freeware and it's 100% legal. A competent tech can turn VNC into a stealth remote viewing program fairly easily.
 
EagleKeeper

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Anything coming through a proxy can get logged. Names of files being accessed and/or URL addresses.

Then they can mine those logs and generate reports by requestor IP address/user id
 
cKGunslinger

cKGunslinger

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Do not do anything on your work PC you wouldn't be comfortable doing with the IT staff and your superiors standing directly behind you, watching over your shoulders, becasue, that's essentially what they're doing anyway.

<posts from work>
 
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Mavrick007

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You should only be doing work on your work machine or else "they" will know and come and get you :eek:
 
pontifex

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we have about 50 computer using employees where i work. we don't actively monitor web usage but we can if we want to. we have several Watchguard Firebox Xs and the software that comes with them allows you to log traffic and even see exactly what site someone is going to.
 
episodic

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Where has the original poster been?

Need4speed, you do that on a network I ran you'd be gone. I love to remote in randomly and see what is running on a machine
 
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Need4Speed

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Originally posted by: episodic
Where has the original poster been?

Need4speed, you do that on a network I ran you'd be gone. I love to remote in randomly and see what is running on a machine
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be my guest.
 
Homerboy

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we have about 75 users. Most of which run through a proxy and all internet traffic can and is logged. I can run reports on individuals, groups, etc....We do not pro-actively run reports, only reactively. In fact I got to run 2 today... poor bastards.

We've busted many people with it too. Any small or medium size business that DOESN'T do this is foolish. We use it as a CYA insurance policy and to police complaints and such from other employees. Investment is nominal for such an important insurance policy.
 
pontifex

pontifex

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Originally posted by: episodic
Where has the original poster been?

Need4speed, you do that on a network I ran you'd be gone. I love to remote in randomly and see what is running on a machine
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probably got fired for looking at porn or downloading warez at work, lol
 
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Need4Speed

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Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: episodic
Where has the original poster been?

Need4speed, you do that on a network I ran you'd be gone. I love to remote in randomly and see what is running on a machine
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probably got fired for looking at porn or downloading warez at work, lol
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who? me? i dont think so tim
 
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Velk

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Originally posted by: Need4Speed
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: episodic
Where has the original poster been?

Need4speed, you do that on a network I ran you'd be gone. I love to remote in randomly and see what is running on a machine
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probably got fired for looking at porn or downloading warez at work, lol
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who? me? i dont think so tim
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The original poster I assume.
 
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Battousai001

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Hi guys! sorry I wasnt able to reply, well I was wondering, our office setup is that we are subscribing on an ISP on a T1 connection I think, and we have a server on our office, I am a complete amateur when it comes to servers and network stuff so I dont know if there is a firewall or proxy thingy but I think there is (every setup does right?), our main servers are located in a different country and the only servers here are for the other services we offer, the servers in our office is where the development stuff are being done.

My question is does all the traffic of our internet browsing activities goes through these servers , the routers etc. in our office? and that for example all websites we visited and all the files we download also has a copy on the servers? and that system administrators or our boss can literally check it or see it on the server what sites or files we have downloaded (or there shuold be a software for that?)?

OR in order for our sysadmin or boss to see our browsing activities they need to request the logs from our ISP?

BTW I have tried asking one of my senior developer colleague regarding if the sysadmins are monitoring our browsing activity, he said that our sys admin do not care and does not monitor our browsing activity and that it would just be a waste of time to monitor us. I didnt asked him further questions anymore (but I still have doubts on it).

Lastly, Im not downloading porn or warez on our office, its just that Im browsing on forums and downloading video clips and other geek stuff.. :D
 
mechBgon

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Originally posted by: Battousai001
Hi guys! sorry I wasnt able to reply, well I was wondering, our office setup is that we are subscribing on an ISP on a T1 connection I think, and we have a server on our office, I am a complete amateur when it comes to servers and network stuff so I dont know if there is a firewall or proxy thingy but I think there is (every setup does right?), our main servers are located in a different country and the only servers here are for the other services we offer, the servers in our office is where the development stuff are being done.

My question is does all the traffic of our internet browsing activities goes through these servers , the routers etc. in our office? and that for example all websites we visited and all the files we download also has a copy on the servers? and that system administrators or our boss can literally check it or see it on the server what sites or files we have downloaded (or there shuold be a software for that?)?

OR in order for our sysadmin or boss to see our browsing activities they need to request the logs from our ISP?

BTW I have tried asking one of my senior developer colleague regarding if the sysadmins are monitoring our browsing activity, he said that our sys admin do not care and does not monitor our browsing activity and that it would just be a waste of time to monitor us. I didnt asked him further questions anymore (but I still have doubts on it).

Lastly, Im not downloading porn or warez on our office, its just that Im browsing on forums and downloading video clips and other geek stuff.. :D
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Looks like you better keep your resume updated.

 
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