important- website visit analysis

[meenakumar]

Hi , I am working in a small firm and head a group of 5 employees. My support guy is just terminated.My boss has given me new task to view which sites our employees are visiting daily? Probably I want to see if they just scroll through news websites or any other entertainment sites. I tried to get their cookies but they often clear those. Is there any central PC where I can view the visited sites, downloaded material? What commands or function can I use to get these visited links? Thank you, meenakumar

[Ray Cassick]

You should be able to view your proxy\firewall logs to see where they have been going... Other than that, unless you are sniffing with something like Wireshark[^] you have to rely on the browser history. You are running a firewall somewhere right?

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[Chris Losinger]

i'd use the "do it yourself, i quit" function.

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[Dalek Dave]

Tell your boss not to be a paranoid cheapskate, as long as the work is being done who cares, and a happy workforce is an efficient workforce. Do you think I would be able to sit around on here all day if we allowed that shit to happen?

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[dan sh]

In first place, this is not your job(if you are a developer). If you are using web proxy server then you should monitor that. A bit of google will surely help you out.

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[John M Drescher]

You should do that at the firewall, router, dns server or install a proxy server. Basically the idea is a device upstream can record the ip address of all sites visited by each computer and put this in a log. This is pretty easy to do if this box is linux. One way in linux you could have a cron job monitor the logs and email you when a banned site is visited.

John

[Lost User]

In some countries you will need the written consent of the user to do this. It might be considered trespassing if you do not have the end-users permission. Enjoy :laugh:

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[Babant]

Maybe I have been watching too many movies lately but are you saying that your previous task was to terminate your support guy, and after a successfull termination, your boss gave you a new assignment? :D ... I'll be back ... :D

[Zhat]

You can probably get it off the logs on the Proxy, but let's have a little fun. Get the logs, download to a spreadsheet. Look for your bosses entries, as well as several other high ranking folks (CIO, CEO, CFO, etc.) and make additional entries for each. These entries would be to some porn (gay, beastiality, lez...) as well as neonazi political sites. Now, walk this over to him and tell him you're not real familiar with this proceedure so maybe someone who's job it IS should do this...

[Dan Neely]

There're ways to get fired that involve far less work. :rolleyes:

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[Roger Wright]

I like the way you think! :-D

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[meenakumar]

Sorry guys See its a small company , i need to do what boss tells me. I am not a good developer not a good system administrator , our work involves engineering designs. Can anyone tell me where to go and look for log files on the dns, proxy web server or firewall machine, router machine? is it in event viewer? meenakumar

[Jorgen Andersson]

If it's an ISA server you can try c:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\. DNS belongs to the event viewer. For non microsoft products I'm afraid you have to check the manual.

[Zhat]

True, but very few where the boss, and possibly other get to join you in that unemployment line... ;)