Re: Symantec question

From: sponge (yosponge_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/28/03 

Date: 27 May 2003 22:36:09 -0700

On Tue, 27 May 2003 21:50:51 +0900, "Domenic Rooney" <domr@aol.com>
wrote:

>Hi, I have a very simple question I'd like to ask. My friend sent me
a
>picture with the name of a XXX website on it. The name did not
suggest that
>it was an adult website so I typed it into the address bar of the
browser
>and it would not let me view the page because Symantec was installed
on the
>system and it said something about sex/nudity- cannot display the
page. Will
>this attempted access be logged?

Depends one what's running and in what setting. I am not sure to which
"Symantec" product you are referring, but if you are in a corporate
environment, it is virtually guaranteed that it will be logged.
Whether your IT staff regularly checks the logs or takes those things
seriously is another altogether, and most companies to not
aggressively go after people unless either they have an extensive
history of such attempts or if they believe that security would
somehow be compromised (whether it be a drive-by download of malicious
spyware, dialers, trojans, or the like, for which these kinds of sites
are famous, or by your use of other potential security risks like
file-sharing software.)
Most IT staff realize that such sites are getting harder and harder to
avoid in the course of normal business -- you can "visit" such a site
just by opening a spam email -- so they probably won't be too
concerned. Their software did it's job.

Sponge
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