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Crochet Geek
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posted April 10, 2008 08:22
I'm working on a computer with Windows XP at home and in the office. From home I remote in and sometimes on lunch, I cruise through the internet on my home pc and minimize the work connection. Well,several times I accidentally found that I was actually cruising on my work internet, not my own. I cleaned out the history and the cookies and swallowed my anxiety. Is there any way I can figure out if the ISP provider which is also my company's outsource network company is tracking internet access and logging where the company users surf to? Is there some hidden programs, files or logs on my work computer that will show me that I'm being tracked. I don't want to get fired. I have too many bills!! Thank you.
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MacManKrisK
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posted April 10, 2008 09:54
If you surf from work you are likely being tracked. If you haven't done anything heinous, then I wouldn't worry about it, but it's true that there is probably a record of where you go on the web, perhaps tied to your login name, or maybe just your MAC address.
The ISP isn't likely to be doing any tracking, but your company's IT department probably is. 99% of the time, though, the logs are just kept for legal purposes.. if the FBI knocked on your company's door and said that they suspect someone's been downloading kiddie porn at your office.. then the IT guys could go back to the logs. Otherwise, unless they're VERY bored in the IT department, they probably don't get looked at.
OH, and, no, there is nothing you can do to get rid of the logs they have, sorry.
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TheMoMan
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posted April 10, 2008 10:39
______________________ Crochet Geek Aaaahhhhh you seem to have crocheted your self into a doily, I have to agree with MMKK his answer pretty much covered the loops. However most companies just track MAC addresses, the reason I know this is that the stepson worked nights at place that left secured computers on. He would put in a live Linux CD reboot do his surfing and then shut down take his CD out and restart the computer. Well one morning the company had an IT crash and then while looking at the logs, and the time sheets they came to the conclusion that he had hacked the system. Discharge time.
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Jace Raven
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posted April 10, 2008 15:27
You should research into some of the capabilities of some of the Network Management systems they have out there. One really good one is SolarWinds.
Not only does SolarWinds allow you to manage and monitor all of your network devices but it will do so on any firewall or Tier1 or Tier2 Routers you have and it will log and display the statistics for all of the websites visited. The way the logs show, depending on your level of monitoring, which is directly proportionate to your level of overhead, is the most visited by statistical use. Meaning you can show what subnets or networks are using what sites. Most requested sites, not necessarily most visited depending on firewall configurations, and other data is usual.
Here's the thing. If you go to a website once, chances of someone seeing that are unlikely, unless you hit a flag, a big one. If over the course of a week you transfer 40Gb worth of bandwidth to that site, you're probably in for some trouble.
When I train my Marines on network management and monitoring, I teach them that if something looks fishy you dig. We also use automatic flags that notify us if someone requests a site on a black list. If it happens once for a single IP, no biggie, if it happens multiple times to different sites, as it normally would, for the same IP, dig. And logs are kept for a very long time.
So there was a little peak into a very small portion of the network management side. Hope it helped.
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