RE: Surfing Restrictions
- From: uggabugga <uggabugga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:33:04 -0700
a144mb,
Just out of curiosity, how can you be so sure that your salespeople are
surfing porn sites? Spyware is what is causing the popups. Everyone I know
who has a PC that isn't protected has porn popups.
Unless they are saving them to their favorites or you see them in the
history list or there are porn videos / photos on the drive, I wouldn't be so
quick to judge. If they are guilty and they lose business because of it, they
should be fired and held accountable. Just imagine what prospective clients
are telling their contacts about your company.
Or you can start looking for another job because I wouldn't hold out much
hope of the company being in business for long if they are not willing to
fire people who cause the company to lose business.
About keylooging tracking content blocking software. There are a number of
products that my friends use to keep their children away from porn. Net Nanny
is the name that I have heard most although I have not used any of them.
I've heard a lot of things but this is a very bizarre story.
JMO
"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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