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Messing with the MIS department

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Vogel515

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So the MIS department likes to uninstall FF from people's computers and monitor who is visiting the web using it, I'd like to write a small app that will make IE appear as FireFox when visiting websites - not too the websites, but to our MIS department.

Anyone have any ideas?

If you need help bypassing company IT policies then you also need a different forum.

Markbnj

Programming Mod
 
Originally posted by: Vogel515
Actually, I love my job.

You don't play office pranks?
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I'd hardly call that a prank, that's bypassing company policies to make your MIS department do more work. A prank is wrapping someones cube in bubble wrap, or putting tape over their optical eye on the mouse.
 
Well, I apologize if I hit a sore spot for you, but I bet the time to figure this out equates to about the same amount of time as un-bubble wrapping a cube, or having to pick up about 300 3/4s filled cups of water all over someones desk.
 
Wouldn't this just be a case of them just looking for firefox.exe running instead of iexplorer.exe or even sniffing browser agent headers, skinning or obscuring would not help one bit?
 
Initially I was wondering whether in their log of HTTP activity they were storing something, but I guess that was stupid of me.

Yes, they are just tracking which programs are running, anyway to change how the name appears?
 
Originally posted by: Vogel515
Well, I apologize if I hit a sore spot for you, but I bet the time to figure this out equates to about the same amount of time as un-bubble wrapping a cube, or having to pick up about 300 3/4s filled cups of water all over someones desk.
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Hahaha... uh, no.

This is indistinguishable from disguising any other piece of software to get past company policies. The first kid to get truly good and busted for releasing a worm did it as a prank as well. If you really intend to try this I presume you are _very_ secure in your position.

And if you do intend to try it, please don't request any more advice here.

But do tell us how it turns out.
 
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