BF2S Forums For those of you who post or surf the net at work.

I work in IT security and can tell you if they are running the tools and systems to track and monitor your activity there is no getting around it unless you have rights over the network.  With different tools come different capabilities.   But watching what you do is not difficult if they really want to see what your up to.  If your worried the only thing I can recommend is lock down your machine, to limit anyone remotely accessing your local system... But tracking your MAC address and IP address around the network and to places that you surf is still going to be possible.  (unless your the guy behind the guy... behind the guy... running the network)

MatRx9 wrote:

Either get a friend in network admin so that they can give you rights to work around the security or become so valuable to your company that they don't care what you do as long as you keep kicking butt.

That about sums it up for me!    Funny thing is, I got a call from my boss as I was posting something earlier...I'm getting a big fat promotion, YEAH! 

Last edited by CMDR_Dave (2005-10-28 12:15:47)

CMDR_Dave wrote:

MatRx9 wrote:

Either get a friend in network admin so that they can give you rights to work around the security or become so valuable to your company that they don't care what you do as long as you keep kicking butt.

That about sums it up for me!    Funny thing is, I got a call from my boss as I was posting something earlier...I'm getting a big fat promotion, YEAH! 

Congrats Dave

I don't have to worry about that now but when I worked at ibm they had monitoring tools that were supposedly only monitoring calls but could have been used in other ways. I'm pretty sure you have the right to know when you're employer is monitoring you anyway. But ya, there's no way around it if it's mandatory, they would be able to see if it was not in use by a particular machine anyway even if you had rights to work around it.

@dave, congrats buddy!

i m the boss.. no one watches me.. hehe..

CMDR_Dave wrote:

MatRx9 wrote:

Either get a friend in network admin so that they can give you rights to work around the security or become so valuable to your company that they don't care what you do as long as you keep kicking butt.

That about sums it up for me!    Funny thing is, I got a call from my boss as I was posting something earlier...I'm getting a big fat promotion, YEAH! 

Schweet!  Gratz bro (you're buying beers!)

VirtuaLResistancE wrote:

If I couldnt spend time online at work I'd shoot myself. My other thoughts on this subject would be: would the software process show up in task manager? and: this might be a good subject for google if no-one has any other information. Unfortunately I cant answer your question/s.

Task manager = No.

I work for a medium/large sized ISP, and we have tools to do exactly what is described here.  It can be done over the network completely independant of the actual desktop machines.  There is no way you would know until you are escorted to the door (happened when they saw bittorrent traffic comming from one of my coworkers).

I won't go into specifics as to how this is done unless someone really wants me to, but it is not hard to do.  They see traffic comming from your IP on port 80 to bf2s at 67.43.4.47.  They don't recognise that as a business IP, so they type it into their brouser, and BAM! they know what you are doing.

Last edited by p0wn (2005-11-02 06:41:59)

p0wn wrote:

VirtuaLResistancE wrote:

If I couldnt spend time online at work I'd shoot myself. My other thoughts on this subject would be: would the software process show up in task manager? and: this might be a good subject for google if no-one has any other information. Unfortunately I cant answer your question/s.

Task manager = No.

I work for a medium/large sized ISP, and we have tools to do exactly what is described here.  It can be done over the network completely independant of the actual desktop machines.  There is no way you would know until you are escorted to the door (happened when they saw bittorrent traffic comming from one of my coworkers).

I won't go into specifics as to how this is done unless someone really wants me to, but it is not hard to do.  They see traffic comming from your IP on port 80 to bf2s at 67.43.4.47.  They don't recognise that as a business IP, so they type it into their brouser, and BAM! they know what you are doing.

If you have windows XP pro, and your task manager is disabled... but you have a run command in the start menu... go to start.... run... type "tasklist"
same feature as taskmanager with out the GUI. its the tool I use at work when I telnet throughtout the building checking on what the students and teachers are doing. I also have sniffer programs set up for IDS(Intrusion Detection System), but most of the blocking occurs at the main proxy/firewall at the school board (I'm a net admin at a high school) and my boss doesn't care... I'm looking at his monitor right now and he's looking at his weeks college football scores. .

I'm a network guy too and as other have stated, if your company is doing this they are probably doing it in a way that you will not be able to bypass.  Remote proxies can be used for surfing but those sites are all categorized as being such and would be blocked.  That said, your company can not ethically or legally monitor these things without telling you beforehand that they are doing so.  Your best bet if you are worried about it is to ask a HR rep of your company.

Also, if you get busted using a remote proxy i would guarantee that the consequences of doing that would be far worse then any normal web surfing you may be doing.

Last edited by xilix (2005-11-02 09:12:04)

FLaXCarnage wrote:

Lol i get on bf2s at school hooray for not doing what im supposed to in 7th grade computer class.

My how things have changed.  *Sigh*