Re: computer security

All of the internet providers and including the search engine companies in
most countries, by law must keep a running log of all the activity that is
used through their systems. With a warrant issued from the courts it is
possible to obtain a requested record of any user's activities.

As for corporate networks, they keep a profile of each user. For security
reasons, they keep a running record in each profile of all the activity of
the users. Deleting the history in your local browser does not in any way
delete the actual records of your activities through the company network, or
with their internet provider, or with the search engines that the user has
used.

In our company we had a user that was doing excessive porn browsing. The
server's user logs showed his history of activities. There was no need to
even look at his PC computer.

I have no idea of the policy of the company where you work. Many companies
allow users to use the internet for personal use during their break time,
providing that they do not do illegal activity, abuse usage, or use porno
sites.



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JANA
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<captainvideo462002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cb5e740a-1423-40c1-8bee-914c15adcf53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I use Internet Explorer as my web access for my business. We are in
sales and we all work on commisions here based on the leads we
generate. So privacy is very important. Computer access is shared
among employees. My search procedure is that I usually just go to
google or dogpile and type in the word of the site I'm looking for and
when I'm shown a list I click on it and it takes me there. There is
never a record of the visit stored on Google so I always felt that
this is a secure way to search. However, I just noticed that most
computers keeps a running memory of which sites have been visited in
the address bar. I noticed this quite by accident when attempting to
type an address in the address bar and as soon as I typed so much as
www, a list of things came up. Further, if I type www.s for instance
every site beginning with s that has been visited comes up. I've gone
into Internet options and deleted cookies and offline content. The
addresses remained until I cleared history. However that clears
everything else as well. What I am asking is this. If I go to a
computer that has an existing history on it and I visit a site, can I
make it so that there is no record of my visit yet retain all the
existing sites in the computer's history? This is very important to
me as the security of my job may depend on it. Thanks, John.


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