Is there monitoring software that does the following...

[MBony]

-computers are on a workgroup, not domain
-will email me reports of what websites user has been to
-i'm able to block/allow specific sites or ability to use wildcards

 

[Modelworks]

Clark Connect will do it, but it has to be run on its own pc, not under windows.

 

[Nothinman]

You need to force everyone to go through a proxy, use that to do the filtering and then do reporting on the proxy logs. Most commercial software for that is pretty expensive.

Squid is pretty much the defacto-standard free proxy software and I used calamaris briefly at my last job for it's log analysis but you'll still need a way to enfore proxy usage.

 

[MBony]

I forgot to mention that the users are at numerous locations around the state. Does that matter?

 

[Nothinman]

If they're all going through the same Internet connection, no.

 

[MBony]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If they're all going through the same Internet connection, no.

They aren't, they will be going through their own connection.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I'm guessing you'd have to setup some sort of VPN that they couldn't modify and have traffic routed through a proxy that way...though I think that would be very inefficient and internet performance would likely suffer.

My non-expert/non-professional way of doing it would be setting up hamachi on each of the computers, all set to the same network as the proxy server they're routed through. Then restricting the hell outta their rights to various system settings (internet options, regedit, gpedit, secpol, installation permissions, etc...) so they couldn't bypass it.

 

[Nothinman]

They aren't, they will be going through their own connection.

Then you'll need to fix that or give each site their own filtering device.