At my work, i am the "computer specialist." i was wondering if there is a way to block all saved internet history. aka i need a way to block the computers from recording where employees go on the internet. Our illiterate boss is trying to scare the employees to not use the internet by saying he hired some outside company to monitor our activity. i know this isnt true seeing as i have the only administrator account and know the only password to it, so i know no one installed anything. if anyone knows of a script i can run everytime someone logs off or some way to block the computers from storing that information that would be great.
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help me block saved information
- Thread starter Spearboy
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What like the history? On each individual computer you could set IE to not keep a history and I guess you could keep the cache at zero. There's prob a script to erase the cache at logoff.
But there still might be records on whatever your gateway might be.
But there still might be records on whatever your gateway might be.
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Spearboy said:At my work, i am the "computer specialist." i was wondering if there is a way to block all saved internet history. aka i need a way to block the computers from recording where employees go on the internet. Our illiterate boss is trying to scare the employees to not use the internet by saying he hired some outside company to monitor our activity. i know this isnt true seeing as i have the only administrator account and know the only password to it, so i know no one installed anything. if anyone knows of a script i can run everytime someone logs off or some way to block the computers from storing that information that would be great.
Does that mean your in charge of the computers? or simply everyone seems to go to you for help?
What purpose would that serve other than the boss *not* being able to see where people have been on the internet?
As he said, clearing the history is through internet settings in the control panel. Several programs exist, some free and some commercial, to clean up traces that IE misses. From a forensic standpoint, these programs do destroy evidence. However, if there is any logging at the gateway, which there easily could be, as it is easier for an outside company to monitor at the gateway than install logging on every PC. If something does come up at the gateway that is then tracked back to a user's PC, of which there is an empty history, your boss is going to blame you for trying to cover up the history. I would not be involved in clearing histories behond you boss's back.
What you can do is go into Internet Options > General and set Days to keep pages in history to 0. Then go into Settings in the Temporary Internet Files box and set it to never.
Then clear the history and delete the temporary internet files.
Once that is done go to Start > Run > "mmc" , then File > Add Snap-In. You'll want to select Group Policy.
Once in the Group Policy you can go to:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer
In the right window you now want to double click on Disable changing history settings and Disable changing Temporary Internet file settings and set them to Enabled.
Additionally:
If you have a Windows 2000/2003 domain you can use Group Policy Management Console (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4F-50CE-42C7-A401-30BE1EF647EA&displaylang=en) to create a Group Policy Object and apply it to your Organizational Unit (assuming you have your computers broken up into OUs and you have permissions to edit/create GPOs). This will save you from going computer to computer as these settings would be applied each time a user logs into the machine (it adds a little overhead but not much).
Hope that helps!
Then clear the history and delete the temporary internet files.
Once that is done go to Start > Run > "mmc" , then File > Add Snap-In. You'll want to select Group Policy.
Once in the Group Policy you can go to:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer
In the right window you now want to double click on Disable changing history settings and Disable changing Temporary Internet file settings and set them to Enabled.
Additionally:
If you have a Windows 2000/2003 domain you can use Group Policy Management Console (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4F-50CE-42C7-A401-30BE1EF647EA&displaylang=en) to create a Group Policy Object and apply it to your Organizational Unit (assuming you have your computers broken up into OUs and you have permissions to edit/create GPOs). This will save you from going computer to computer as these settings would be applied each time a user logs into the machine (it adds a little overhead but not much).
Hope that helps!
ketox said:What you can do is go into Internet Options > General and set Days to keep pages in history to 0. Then go into Settings in the Temporary Internet Files box and set it to never.
Then clear the history and delete the temporary internet files.
Once that is done go to Start > Run > "mmc" , then File > Add Snap-In. You'll want to select Group Policy.
Once in the Group Policy you can go to:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Internet Explorer
In the right window you now want to double click on Disable changing history settings and Disable changing Temporary Internet file settings and set them to Enabled.
Additionally:
If you have a Windows 2000/2003 domain you can use Group Policy Management Console (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...4F-50CE-42C7-A401-30BE1EF647EA&displaylang=en) to create a Group Policy Object and apply it to your Organizational Unit (assuming you have your computers broken up into OUs and you have permissions to edit/create GPOs). This will save you from going computer to computer as these settings would be applied each time a user logs into the machine (it adds a little overhead but not much).
Hope that helps!
that sounds like what im going for. basically i know a fair amount about computers, but im just trying to prevent my boss from comming in a see what i browse. its a small company of 13 people so its not like i have to hid from much. barely anyone else knows what windows is let alone how to use it. most are pretty computer illiterate. he just stated that they are going to be "monitoring our activity." basically i think they are just going to check everyones history and temp internet files, and in case i forgot to clean my history i just wanted there to be a script of some sort running when i close down to cover me. thanks for the help
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Spearboy said:that sounds like what im going for. basically i know a fair amount about computers, but im just trying to prevent my boss from comming in a see what i browse. its a small company of 13 people so its not like i have to hid from much. barely anyone else knows what windows is let alone how to use it. most are pretty computer illiterate. he just stated that they are going to be "monitoring our activity." basically i think they are just going to check everyones history and temp internet files, and in case i forgot to clean my history i just wanted there to be a script of some sort running when i close down to cover me. thanks for the help
It won't help if there is some kind of monitoring at the gateway level................
You would be better off not doing whatever it is your trying to hide from your boss.