Monitoring Internet Usage

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

Does logmein require a locally installed agent, or Java client, etc? Many organisations audit the PC's and report unauthorised software being installed. I've had to give up using MSN, as I install it for use at home, then every time I plug into the network in an office for more than 10 minutes, it's gone again! I only have admin rights on my laptop 'cos it's Vista 64bit and not the companies standard XP build and they chose to skip Vista. When I get Windows 7 it'll be a locked down standard build and it'll drive me daft.

logmein is all done via web client, the application is installed on the pc you want to control

logmein is all done via web client, the application is installed on the pc you want to control

Indeed it is, thats the beauty of it, its very flexible regarding protocols too.

Originally Posted by bluefishman

you could allways get an, wait for it










IPHONE, lol.

Ok, I didnt mention but I work in a sensitive environment with the possibility of explosion. NO mobile phones permitted. Therefore no iphones.

Id of thought a pc more hazarderous when its powered on and off lol.

Lets be realistic here. None of us have any god given right to personal email/internet access at work. The company I work for has just tightened up on personal internet access, but they're still not bad. They've blocked access to a load of dubious sites, started monitoring visited sites, and block streaming other than at lunch time. If people take the p*ss then they can expect to be clamped down upon. Quite a few large organisations are now employing computer forensic people to check up on employees that they suspect to be abusing company policy.

To be fair I'm not bothered... I can access everything that I require, the Org, personal email, banking etc.

My main concern was the amount of time. I have the org on my browser nearly all day, I do obviously have it minimised when Im working so I would hope that it would only 'clock up' when the brower is actually open and in use if you know what I mean..

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by madcockney

100 % correct regarding the disciplinary proceedings. There are also open source products that can do virtually every thing that most small operations want, so the company may have spent very little or nothing more than time, and still have a reasonable web filtering and proxy setup.

I think the problem arises from the fact that many people think that it's their right to access the Internet at any time they want to. A few months back one of our users was incensed that they could not access their personal e-mail account, and stated it was their human right to. We had not blocked it on purpose, it was just that hotmail had changed their access procedure, so our filter had blocked it. I pointed out that they had perfectly adequate organisational e-mail, but of course they had made a personal on-line order and were awaiting an e-mail so it was our fault. They were absolutely gob smacked when I told them that we did not have to provide access to their personal e-mail and that many businesses block all but their own.

I do think any organisation that bans private email address access are ********s.
If you mess with the system too much and you get a techie on a powertrip they may well ring the plod on you.


Edit: I didn;t even think that was a naughty word!

[TEC]

Originally Posted by Dave20046

I do think any organisation that bans private email address access are ********s.

Can I ask why

[ophic]

Originally Posted by madnlooney

logmein is all done via web client, the application is installed on the pc you want to control

you can do this with VNC also. But you need to configure it. Hell, I could easily get RDP going over port 80 - but i'd expect any half-decent proxy to lob these out, cos they're not http.

[Dave20046]

TEc- Just seems wrong, I know technically you have no right but for the past 8 years I've always known I can check my mail at atleast the next lunch/break and deal with whatever crap's in there. If it was banned from me it'd be weird, then again it won't be for the forseeable future so I'm not worried