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It would be at the discretion of your company and if they have something installed to monitor that. I would error on the side of cleaning your cookies would NOT trigger a notice to be sent. Some companies inform you to clean out your cookies to speed up your computers processing.
It all depends on the shop. If you use a proxy server then it really doesn't destroy the evidence - you can just log page requests at the server level with pass-through authentication.
Chances are no, there is nothing built into windows that does it.
So if I go to a link that is "blocked" or more importantly if I open a thread and all of the pics are red x's because the site is blocked, how do they know that I visited the site or attempted to?
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So if I go to a link that is "blocked" or more importantly if I open a thread and all of the pics are red x's because the site is blocked, how do they know that I visited the site or attempted to?
Proxy server. You're request goes through a gateway which can track any request per user is authentication is passed to it.
Best suggestion is to know someone in the I.T Department who can tell you if they do track users or if they just block it. Some companies use proxy server to cache common websites as well.
In my job we don't really care about tracking people web history. It's time consuming and waste of time. We have bigger problems to worry about.
I really wouldn't worry about it unless you have strick I.T rules in your job. Also this utility is pretty good at cleaning everything at once.
If you're trying to delete the cookies because you accessed MySpace or whatever at work, most likely than not it has been tracked and logged as you have to hit the proxy server in order to access approved websites. The proxy's the filter, in a sense. There is really no use in deleting the cookies after you've visited a non-authorized website. The only reason you have cookies/temp files is store user data so that the next time you log back in, it's faster reload.
Anyhow, if you're trying to clean the already created temp files/cookies, download CCleaner.
It cleans stuff pretty well.
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Like everyone else has said, any site you go to (most likely blocked or not) will be logged. Chances are that the IT staff does not monitor things that are not blocked unless you're near the top of the list when it comes to internet browsing. As far as blocked sites, someone probably glances at those from time to time.
When you're working for a company, don't expect any anonymity when it comes to your browsing habits.
Like everyone else has said, any site you go to (most likely blocked or not) will be logged. Chances are that the IT staff does not monitor things that are not blocked unless you're near the top of the list when it comes to internet browsing. As far as blocked sites, someone probably glances at those from time to time.
When you're working for a company, don't expect any anonymity when it comes to your browsing habits.
Werd.
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When you're working for a company, don't expect any anonymity when it comes to your browsing habits.
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Unless you're cool w/ your IT people (and even then, those logs are saved anyway so if management wants to know your browsing habits it's there), there's really no way to be "safe" while browsing at work.
I suggest if you really want to browse freely at work, just bring your own laptop and tether your 3g phone or something. We have a company a floor below us who has an unsecure network lol, we just jump on there when we need to connect outside teh network.
Oh, and depending on how sophisticated your guys' proxy is, you can trace route any website and access the website by the IP address. I believe that tricks the proxy. Not 100% sure if it still redirects to the actual host name.
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Oh, and depending on how sophisticated your guys' proxy is, you can trace route any website and access the website by the IP address. I believe that tricks the proxy. Not 100% sure if it still redirects to the actual host name.
HTTP 1.1 protocol requires the DNS name if they are doing named based hosting which many providers do, putting only ip addresses will return the only or the first site configured on that ip address.
This was designed so that each website did not require it's own IP address. SSL still requires a seperate IP address for each site as it encrypts the host header request so you can't peel the ip address.
Actually on the client computer side there is a way to view a person's browsing history if it's a windows machine, even if the browser cache has been cleaned. There are "index.dat" files that windows uses to store your computer usage information, for what ever purposes I don't know. Depending on how the system is setup, these files are stored in the user directory and CAN NOT be deleted by the user because windows will state that the file is currently in use. The manual way to do it is to completely restart the system, log into a separate account with admin rights and then browse to the folder under that user with the index.dat files (there are several in various locations) in them.
Point is, even if they don't have a proxy server, depending on how it's setup and if it's on windows, if they do some digging, and you don't have a separate admin account or admin rights. They can find pretty much any site you've visited, EVER on that account.
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Yeaaaa... I have seen index.html file which are actual screenshots of random pages in your browser.
Now, what about AG posts? You need a PM account to see them, so they can't even see anything that is there other than attachments correct? Or can they not even see attachments in AG?
Just curious about all this behind the scenes IT stuff, lol.
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IT guys- When you clear your cache/cookies/history at work, does it store a log file?
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