Re: Surfing Restrictions
From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 04/12/05
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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 08:27:57 -0500
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-- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Microsoft Newsgroups Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.mspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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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