Re: Surfing Restrictions
- From: "Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:30:13 -0500
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"a144mb" wrote:
| We have about 100 Dell Latitude D610 laptops running WinXP Pro that are used
| for auditorium-sized presentations to about 200 entrepreneurs by our
| lecturers and salesmen. Late last week, a lecturer was giving a professional
| product presentation to an audience of 200 people and a spontaneous x-rated
| browser window (ie, popup) displayed. The whole auditorium crowd exited in
| disgust. Needless to say, we lost a lot of money that day. In more detail
| about us, we are a 500+ employee company that relies on about 150 salesmen,
| who use the laptops, to bring in our revenue on the front line. The salesmen
| are divided into teams of 8-10 people per team. Each team has a 'sales
| team-lead' that they report to on the road. The salesmen physically report
| into headquarters once a week and turn in their laptops for routine servicing
| (ie, cloning and Windows/AntiVirus updating). The 'sales team-lead' is the
| only one with the laptop admin password and his sales team are Power Users on
| the laptops. We gave the sales team-lead the admin password so that if they
| were in a crunch with the laptop on the road, we as an IT Dept could talk to
| them on the phone, have them log in as Admin and walk them through an
| emergency install/uninstall or repair of the laptop. We haven't investigated
| it but hotel connections/ISPs may or may not allow Remote Assistance from us
| to them while on the road. I've been at the company as an IT support tech for
| 2 months and have 5 years tech break/fix & networked computer experience. My
| superiors (System Admin, Network Admin, & IT Manager) have been at the
| company for two plus years....On our old Inspiron laptops, we had an issue of
| the sales teams surfing lewd sites on the 'company laptops' while on the
| road. Last week, we gave the sales teams the BRAND NEW D610s and took the
| vulgar issue up (again) with the sales team director. He gave them a
| 'talking-to' that's basically the equivalent of a slap on the wrist. We also
| have a weak computer policy to boot. And as I alluded to earlier, ironically
| the x-rated browser window displayed in public viewing for that VERY FIRST
| TIME and only time. My question is, is there a method in XP or a third-party
| software that will block all x-rated sites to computers/laptops that are not
| permenantly connected to a secured LAN backbone? But not block unrated sites
| that are not lewd and vulgar. Is there a software that tracts where users
| have surfed irregardless of deleted IE history and deleted IE cache? Are
| there examples of staunch computer policies online that can be used as
| templates? Outside of firing them, what can we do to stop these 25 - 50 y/o
| grown men from abusing our company equipment? Thanks in advance for your
| assistance.
.
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