[Jeff75]

My wife works in a small business and was told that management knew every website the employees visit while at work. Knowing the complete lack of computer / technical skill management there has, she is extremely skeptical of this statement.

Is there any software she can use to detect the presence of such monitoring software?

If she IS being monitored, is there someway to circumvent it?

She was advised by a tech support person to clear her cache, cookies, and history every day. But what about inter-day monitoring? Wouldn't she have to clear all those after every page? We're not convinced clearing out those items would even do the job.

She works on G4's running OS9, with NT servers.

[clebin]

Clearing the cache, cookies, etc. won't always do the job because most companies will have a proxy server which sits right in the middle of you and the internet.

A proxy server basically forwards your requests to the destination and takes the response and forwards it to you. It's at this point the sites you visit is logged. Normally it's the only way an employee can reach the outside world....

I used to have an external IP address at the company I worked for, which meant my machine basically sat in the outside world, but that's because we techies could do what we wanted if nobody knew! Doubt they'd grant her that wish...

Chris

[ambush]

Best way would be to use a proxy, clear caches, clear history.

Or just lock her computer.

I'm sure there are a gazillion of apps out there that do that job. I mean, just looks at those ads all over the net " THEY'RE WATCHING YOU", "HERE IS YOUR IP ADDRESS YOUR WIFE COULD KNOW THAT YOU ARE WATCHING PORN!" or even "DOWNLOAD HISTORY KILLER NOW!!! CLEAR ALL THE S3CR3T CHILD PORN EVIDENCE THE PRIVATE EYES COULD FIND!"

[ambush]

Oh and - have you considered VPNing to your computer at home

[The Oracle]

thing is, the management doesn't have to be tech savvy to do it. all they have to do is tell the techies to give them an aggregate report on sites visited, and if things look bad they can delve into personal surfing habits.

[Angus_D]

Originally posted by ambush:
Oh and - have you considered VPNing to your computer at home

This would work. You could also tunnel an X11 session over SSH and use mozilla or something, that would probably work too

[workerbee]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
This would work. You could also tunnel an X11 session over SSH and use mozilla or something, that would probably work too

SSH over Anonymizer might work. Circumvent the Proxie (if there is one), don't even show any traffic on port 80. It's not that bad to set up: I use an AppleScript and a different Location setup for it - 127.0.0.1 as proxie. You don't have to use X11 or anything like that, just surf away with Safari or whatever.

She'd might also have to use different (external) name servers, as this could be logged as well, but I don't really know about this.

However, all this won't help against big brother software like this stupid *&!@.

[Moose]

Originally posted by Jeff75:
If she IS being monitored, is there someway to circumvent it?

It depends. Perhaps. But it almost certainly isn't worth risking her job.

[Mrjinglesusa]

Originally posted by Moose:
It depends. Perhaps. But it almost certainly isn't worth risking her job.

Ummm, shouldn't she be WORKING at work, not surfing the internet?