Can the network administrator know which web pages I have been to without accessing my computer?
andrea m asked:
Our teachers keep saying that they will know if we go onto facebook or other “illegal” pages. But are they actually able to find out without seeing or accessing the computer?
Can the network administrator access a log or something that is not stored on the computer?
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Our teachers keep saying that they will know if we go onto facebook or other “illegal” pages. But are they actually able to find out without seeing or accessing the computer?
Can the network administrator access a log or something that is not stored on the computer?
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yes they can there is hidden programs that can be logged website access, and which users accessed, they can also monitor for proxy access.
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Yep. If they have a proxy server set up that’s one way. They can look at your history using the network (UNC path) or maybe the have a packet inspection device set up. Either way, yes they can. Now the real question is will they. Is it worth their time to look at every site someone goes to? Not likely.
I am a NetAdmin.
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Ken F said
“Now the real question is will they. Is it worth their time to look at every site someone goes to? Not likely”. Administrators have no need to look at every web page. all they do is look at the systems log files. from that they can see what illegal websites users have been trying to log on to, the log file gives the user name, time, date and workstation which was used,
and should a user access an illegal website then action can be taken against them..
even from your own personal computer at home you can be traced, every computer leaves it’s foot print on every server it passes through or logs on too
be careful out there the internet is a dangerous place if your doing something illegal you are being watched every minute your online
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YES!
I’m a network engineer with 30 years of experience and this is exactly what I do for a living. I conduct investigations for a government agency with roughly 50,000 employees.
Without so much as touching, or accessing a persons computer or any special software on their computer, I can tell every web site they have been to in the last six months. Exactly how much time they spent on every web page, every popup advertisement they got, ever email they sent or received, I can see every chat session they have on Yahoo or ICQ etc. etc. Even if they bypass the proxy servers I can still see it because they go through the firewall and the firewall logs it as well.
I repeat, If a computer is a brand new install and has no special software, or hardware, but is connected to the governement agency network then I can get all that information.
Is it worth the trouble? It’s not any trouble. We let the computers do the work for us. We keep a running list of new porn sites and such all the time. If I was the administrator of your network, I could run a report on “Whitehouse.gov” and see a list of every single computer and user that went to that site and for how long. I could sort it by who was on it the longest, or who went to it most often. It really is not any effort.
In governement agencies (and schools), the computers are owned by the tax payers, and so are to be used for official reasons only. There is no assumption of privacy on public owned computers period.
Corporations have similar views. It is their computers that they pay for so employees can do work, and most have the view that you should not be using it for personal reasons.