IT are searching my internet browsing history....help!

divaboy said:
Either way i'm pretty sure a company can't give you a "bad reference" they can refuse to give you on. Sure someone else will be able to explain in more detail
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A company could give you a bad reference if you are a bad employee and more importantly they can prove objectively and verifiably that their statements about you are true. However because of the difficulties in doing this and the risk of being taken to an employment tribunal or similar most will content themselves with simply writing "person X worked here between day/month/year and day/month/year" or by not giving one at all.
 
Looking at websites you are not permitted on should result in an instant sacking.

At my work we have this one guy that abused his access to the internet. I have been watching him for nearly a year now and all he does is going on Facebook and looking at pron. I work as a Systems Consultant and it has been reported by about 8 members of staff who sit behind him. They can CLEARLY see what sites he is on. His manager knows about it and only 2 months ago i was given permission to remove his internet access. Now all he does, ALL DAY, is sit at his desk looking out the window and just reading through all his old emails. He should be sacked. It p*sses me off and other people because we are doing MORE work becuase of that useless *******.

I removed his internet access by using proxy to point to the companies Intranet. Does anyone know of any other ways? My method works perfectly but would like to know if there was any other ways? Some people might like to know all the ways.
 
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What annoys me is when i walk past people's desks they quickly minimise their browsing window in order to try and hide what they are doing on the screen.
 
DunK1 said:
The joys with SSH, anywhere I can get putty going and i'm sorted :p
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I hope you've remembered to secure your DNS lookups ;)

By default Firefox will resolve over your local network so the websites you visit, though not the content you view, can still be logged. No idea about IE though I suspect it will be the same.
 
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Fourstar said:
I hope you've remembered to secure your DNS lookups ;)

By default Firefox will resolve over your local network so the websites you visit, though not the content you view, can still be logged. No idea about IE though I suspect it will be the same.
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Eh?

Firefox over X11 tunneling via SSH for the win, tbh.
 
Fourstar said:
I hope you've remembered to secure your DNS lookups ;)

By default Firefox will resolve over your local network so the websites you visit, though not the content you view, can still be logged. No idea about IE though I suspect it will be the same.
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I'm pretty it resolves via Squid, but not too sure :p
 
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We had a guy at our workplace surfing animal sites during the day and not sites showing cuddly kittens.

The security guy flagged it up to management, and he was sacked on the spot, walked out of the building by our heavies.

My recommendation is to do your dodgy surfing stuff at home if you want to keep your job.
 
digipeep said:
We had a guy at our workplace surfing animal sites during the day and not sites showing cuddly kittens.

The security guy flagged it up to management, and he was sacked on the spot, walked out of the building by our heavies.

My recommendation is to do your dodgy surfing stuff at home if you want to keep your job.
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That's just so odd. Beyond odd, really.
 
DunK1 said:
:D

I've never used X11 forwarding, so it might just be as easy, but used VNC a few times and it was a peice of cake. And I do use Linux quite a lot, so it's not fanboy-ism :p
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I have, and regularly end up with small niggling problems, but VNC has always worked flawlessly :)
 
Mat said:
Working in the IT dept certainly has its benefits, I find ;)
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whenever I get to a new company, I always make friends with as many of the IT department as I possibly can. luckily, most of them turn out to be quite cool :D
 
The easiest way round this sort of thing is registering a free account at www.logmein.com. This allows you to remote control your home PC from any internet enabled workstation and obviously anything browsed on there isn't logged on the proxy server :)
 
Trojan said:
The easiest way round this sort of thing is registering a free account at www.logmein.com. This allows you to remote control your home PC from any internet enabled workstation and obviously anything browsed on there isn't logged on the proxy server :)
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Well the proxy will log your access to logmein.com though.

Works real well and has 256 Bit SSL encryption.

I recommended it earlier in the thread so neeerr. :p
 
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