Jack M Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Well you should assume you are regardless, but here is one way to know... Control panel >> Admin Tools >> Services. If you have enstart in there, they know everything. It's forensic software: http://www.guidancesoftware.com/products/ef_index.aspx If you remove or disable it, you will probably get a talking-to, or worse, so use this info at your own risk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 big brother must be stopped ! <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdWPWnnNls&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdWPWnnNls&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> fight the power, Jack ! <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOUolZnGIs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOUolZnGIs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> http://www.petitiononline.com/sabene/petition.html <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDSCC5iR_DE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDSCC5iR_DE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> 1984 ? <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 It's not really big brother, because there is no expectation of privacy at work. But I had just never seen this stuff with my own eyes, so I thought it was interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdyno Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 It's a good idea to clear your cookies/browser history on a regular basis as well. I had a chat with a manager who accused me of using an online dating service at work, it had been a pop up at an online radio station. I just closed it and thought no big deal. That was an meeting I wouldn't want to have again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Our city has a keystroke monitor. They know everything we do. I dont care, but if we surf too much we get a sit down. They are actually pretty reasonable to us since our internet use can be considered recreational after normal business hours. The city had a problem a few years ago when an employee went around the monitoring software to surf porn. He was an IT guy so it never bled to our side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willywhit Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 back when I had a corp job at "THE PHONE COMPANY" in the 90's there was no such thing as big brother on our clunky old computers. Someone figger'd out how to load a golf game on a floppy disc and you could play hole after hole and just hit escape to quickly make it go away. As long as you crushed your quota, they'd leave you alone. I had a sweet corner cube with a big window (harbor view) and could see "the man"coming down the aisle waaay before he reached my cube. "Yeah. The coversheet. I know, I know. Uh, Bill talked to me about it." :rolleyes: <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGwr5wj8A8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvGwr5wj8A8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhaskins Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 You would be surprised to see what professional and hourly people surf to at work. I know of gambling, dating, porn, more porn, a lot more porn, additional porn, social networking, YouTube, streaming music, and other crap like that during non-break time and when people are pulling in overtime pay to boot. Management and HR have little appetite for that kind of behavior. OTOH, surf news all day and you are fine. Just don't be an hourly worker. It's fine if you work in Marketing doing "research". You have to assume that there is a proxy server logging all your internet activities at work - so deleting the browsing history and cookies do you no good at all. The proxy and/or firewall logs everything and it can be traced back to you. For the people that think that if they erase the history and deny it, it all traces back to your computer name, ip address and your logon ID. If it is your assigned computer, you are gonna take the heat even if it was someone else that jumped on to your machine to do the browsing. Ctrl-Alt-Del, lock this computer. Just like the crap I am doing right now, being on bomber. Except I am at home at lunch on my home PC. When some of these idiot's get fired for surfing porn, just what do they tell the wife and kids? Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 Our city has clear policies on appropriate use of computers and they have been beating us over the head with them for years, so there is no excuse which I tend to agree with. Proxy server? Yup. Keystroke monitor? check. Each department has someone who monitors use. We have some sites blocked ,but they can be accessed with approval.. Itunes? Blocked. FB and Bomber, CL? Not blocked. Youtube? Aok. Dating sites? Also ok. If we do have a popup, we need to tell a supervisor. On time a few years ago we had some nasty popups. The guys were on the boss's computer, while his profile was still open and had a chain of popups come up, they could not close them fast enough. It was funny as hell. They werent actually doing anything wrong, but they still had to tell the boss. He was not amused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotbeans Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 "When some of these idiot's get fired for surfing porn, just what do they tell the wife and kids?" Honey, you didn't feed the dog again, did you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gecko Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 NMCI monitors and blocks nearly everything so I have no access to anything that can get me in trouble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhaskins Posted January 23, 2009 Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 "When some of these idiot's get fired for surfing porn, just what do they tell the wife and kids?"Honey, you didn't feed the dog again, did you? Heh. In the last year, I have seen 5 people terminated for activities on the inet. I've always wondered how that plays at home if they actually fess up. THAT would make good internet content. Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike g. Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 I don't play with computers. but I drive a semi, they have gps, so they know where, I'am at. How long it takes me to do my job. ________ E24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 I don't play with computers. but I drive a semi, they have gps, so they know where, I'am at. How long it takes me to do my job. You can see that one day we will all wear a com device at work. They will know our every word and every movement. If you dis the company or make too many trips to the bathroom... I saw that the cop cars in the UK now have license plate reading cameras that will alert them (through a central computer) if they pass a vehicle with expired tax, insurance or annual test (or maybe other reasons for a flag). With face recognition improving, it will be a different world in the near future. BobD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex1230 Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 everything I do at work is logged and held for a minimum of 5 years. Of course BOL, TGR, and a couple of motorcycle sites aren't gonna raise the ire of the SEC...but you would be amazed at the level of porn on screen in our trading room... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derf Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 I work for public utility company (22000 employees) with very strict policies. They use Tivoli for process surveillance. Running any software other than that provided by the company is not allowed. Even running open source software is not allowed, especially Firefox (surfing with IE6 is PAINFUL). I have been using some apps like Firefox, Notepad++, Winamp and 7-zip for about a year, but got no warning. The apps show up in the Tivoli logs, but no one checks them or they do not care. I think they mostly use Tivoli for security and reliability with some specific scripts. I am friends with the main computer support tech of the building, and never got any comment or warning from him. I think he knows, but he also knows I know alot about computers and software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nils Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 installed a few years back in a company i worked for Iris...now obsolete, its a paquet sniffer for networks, basically you click on any machine on the network, and it reconstrucs every single IP paquet that has been in or out of the machine: instant messaging, webmails, web surfing, games logs etc.... The idea was: demo what it can do to everyone at once in the company, then never really log onto it to monitor> the fear was big enough! Big brother IS watching us, you, them N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimo Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Jeez. I think I'd just take my own laptop to work and have one of those 3G adaptor cards. Now that I think about it, my airline had Websense installed on their computers. All the crewmembers carried their own laptops around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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