internet surveilance

AHarvey · 28 Apr 2008 at 21:44

Hi all,

We have just start doing night shifts at work, those doing it have a very boring job where they sit there and watch a machine.

They can take a book in or watch the TV by the machine, however some of them are using the internet in the office late at night resulting in really poor quality of products coming off the line.

The boss doesn't want to remove internet access, however he would like to monitor what they are doing on it. Can't use the usual options as they delete history etc.

anyone know of a program (pref. freeware) that will copy what web addresses are visited and the time of the visit. DO NOT want a key logger for obvious legal reasons. If it could then mail the list to someone or upload to the server it would be great.

Only other option is for me to try and write one myself but I wouldn't have a clue where to start!

dave-lew99 · 28 Apr 2008 at 21:52

Does your gateway not log all traffic anyway? If not you should investigate a solution which does (any of the usual culprits will have a solution - Endian, IPCop, PFSense and im sure ISA server will do too)

Don't forget to make all the employees accept/sign an IT Policy which states that their browsing will be logged and if you want to, state that computers are for work use only etc

Where i work has an IT policy which is a bit of a joke really since we're all developers and make up our own rules! - we don't take the **** and sit there browsing facebook all day though. (it's a small enough company where we don't need strict rules)

AHarvey · 28 Apr 2008 at 21:59

Honestly, I have no idea about our gateway. Nothing to do with me, all run by one very hard to get in touch with admin who lives over the sea in Ireland! its a very small company, 1 server and 6 desktop PCs. We believe that the persons are using only one of the PCs at the moment, hence the reason for wanting to spy on just one machine!

Everyone has already signed an agreement on IT policies anyway.

jbloggs · 28 Apr 2008 at 23:16

Does the gateway through which you connect to the internet not have the ability to enable a log?

Energize · 29 Apr 2008 at 13:12

Just unerase the browing history files?

Or get a decent machine that stops when something goes wrong.

I'm perplexed as to why he wants the internet monitored when it's not what they are doing, but the fact that they are doing it that is the problem. The business doesn't seem best organised, internet monitoring is a job for the network administrator.