Work tracking internet history?

Glass said:
I do IT and have pulled reports - you will and usually are tracked. If a company of 200_ is not monitoring this then they will be as cases will arise.

Usually reports are generated when an employee is not pulling their weight and doing there job. If you are delivering results then you should not have anything to worry about.

If you want to cover your tracks set your home system up to accept RDP connections then just RDP into it and surf on your home machine via RDP. I do this as I know the watchers are watching me :)
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I wouldn't recommend doing this. We collect logs here, but rarely search them (unless requested to do so). However, when 2 of our users started using PC Anywhere it was picked up pretty quick.
 
I've worked for a few large companies and at each one have spent at least one day where I had nowt to do so browsed all day and been on sites like rapidshare and never have I been 'caught'.

IT departments in my experience have got too many 'my printer doesn't work' type questions to answer to waste time monitoring you.

If your really worried give yourself an admin account (pretty easy to do) and change your machine name.
 
Dont worry unless they have a policy to not use social media in work time or excessive browsing instead of working. I've seen people get sacked for being on facebook instead of working
 
At a company where I used to work, my boss accused me of surfing the internet instead of doing my work and then produced a big print out of all the websites I had been to.

He then said it was gross misconduct and threatened me with the sack.
 
Depends on the department, but I work in IT in a similarly sized company and we really couldn't give two hoots what you're up to as long as we don't notice a severe/unsual amount of traffic being eaten up by you (eg. constant video streaming). Unless that's the case, it's only if your manager requests something that we'll act -- in which circumstance, yes, we'll have full logs of everything. On a normal day-to-day basis, though, we really don't give two hoots what people are browsing. There are much better things for us to be spending our time on.

Like browsing the net, posting on forums and watching Youtube.
 
My previous employer logged everything .........

but they also had a top ten list of people using the most internet traffic

Boss comes up to me one day

Boss: You showed up as number 5 in the top ten bandwidth used list last month
Me: Awesome big man , I will aim for NUMBER ONE next month ..... I then walked off

I worked in the IT department and downloading bucket loads of drivers and new software is the norm ............ a holes!
 
I work for a national bank and logged high on an Internet usage report once, they told me it was because a forum I go on "auto refreshed". All they said was to close websites if I'm not using them so I don't appear on the report again, I don't think IT really care as long as it's not inappropriate websites and I do the job I'm paid for.
 
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But drill down into the category and you see that it logs "msn.com" homepage as chat.

Silly heuristics is silly.
 
janp said:
Gives himself an admin account? Which you'll need a local admin account or domain admin account to create.
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Sleeve88 said:
How is that even possible without having Administrator rights?
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BartPE with one of the various security plug-ins. You can blank local domain passwords and in some cases (depending on how long the local admin password is) just simply retrieve the password, that way you don't have to make something up when IT come along and find their normal one doesn't work.

Boot back up host machine, log into admin account then add your user name to the administrators group. Job done.

Admittedly I've only ever done this on XP machines, not sure if it work on Vista or 7. But there are plenty of tools out there to retrieve or blank the local machine's admin account password.
 
estebanrey said:
BartPE with one of the various security plug-ins. You can blank local domain passwords and in some cases (depending on how long the local admin password is) just simply retrieve the password, that way you don't have to make something up when IT come along and find their normal one doesn't work.

Boot back up host machine, log into admin account then add your user name to the administrators group. Job done.

Admittedly I've only ever done this on XP machines, not sure if it work on Vista or 7. But there are plenty of tools out there to retrieve or blank the local machine's admin account password.
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Can you detail which methods / tool is used to retrieve the local admin password please , this would be really handy for me
 
They wont bother to track your history, as in the browser's history, most reputable organisations will have filters that record your present and often actively block sites that they deem you should not be looking at. And rightly so if I may add.
 
estebanrey said:
BartPE with one of the various security plug-ins. You can blank local domain passwords and in some cases (depending on how long the local admin password is) just simply retrieve the password, that way you don't have to make something up when IT come along and find their normal one doesn't work.

Boot back up host machine, log into admin account then add your user name to the administrators group. Job done.

Admittedly I've only ever done this on XP machines, not sure if it work on Vista or 7. But there are plenty of tools out there to retrieve or blank the local machine's admin account password.
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Be aware that doing this and getting caught is a much more serious breach of policy than the original issue of internet browsing :)

Many IT depts will monitor local admin groups for any unauthorised changes, and also monitor the client agents for software and know when they are also not running.

Alex53 said:
They wont bother to track your history, as in the browser's history, most reputable organisations will have filters that record your present and often actively block sites that they deem you should not be looking at. And rightly so if I may add.
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They will likely have a record of it as the filtering systems usually log everything, depends on the retention period as to how far back they could go.
 
My friend's friend got caught out twice by the IT guys - the first time since he was browsing pr0n on a work laptop and they saw the history, and then the second time he was called back to London from Leeds where he was sent on business, and he was bricking it thinking he was going to be fired for some reason - then it turned out they had been monitoring his emails which he had been sending to his mates talking about smoking weed :D. So he didn't get sacked, he just got a *******ing. Really foolish to use work email for personal stuff.

Edit: How can bowlowking be a swearword?
 
all this talk of hacking admin accounts on machines

excess internet amounts to a *******ing. Deliberately compromising system security is gross misconduct.
 
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