| Topic Name: |
Internet Monitoring |
| Message Name: |
how to monitor internet activities |
| Date Posted: |
07/18/2001 |
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Does anyone know anything about internet monitoring? I work at a fairly small company and when I started working there, they passed out a memo regarding using the internet and not to abuse the privilege and all that jazz. I am bored all the time at work, needless to say if no one has work for me to do, I go online. I was just wondering how do most companies monitor our internet usage? Do they plug into our computer and stare at what we are looking at? Or do they just load up a screen and it has the link and the user who visited it? Not like I am looking at anything bad online, just online very much. Any insight is appreciated! |
| Message: |
Any decent company with internet connection will have a "Firewall" in order to protet the internal network from attacks from the internet world. this inexpensive piece of software $ 500 has the added benefit of logging all of the URLs browsed by the various users, and it is very easy to see who goes where and when.
Of course there are other ways more expensive, complex and intrusive, but this one is very simple easy and inexpensive. Of course copies of e-mails that your receive and send out are "copied" into the a-mail server as well, and it is extremely easy to put a filter that flags e-mails containing a list of words such as "sex job resume" etc....
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