husband's work laptop

[evil-in-deed]

I use my hsb's laptop to access the internet at home. The only thing is that it's a company laptop and it's routed thru his company. So by any chances, will the sites we visit be shown on his company's server thingy?

yes they can if they really want to...

they can trace it all the way back to the time and date and on which sites...

but only if they care to...

[NceegVaj]

I use my hsb's laptop to access the internet at home. The only thing is that it's a company laptop and it's routed thru his company. So by any chances, will the sites we visit be shown on his company's server thingy?

Me no understand.  "it is routed thru his company".  What is being routed? Internet? VPN to their internet?   If it is owned by the company I would not touch it if the company is a good company with critical information.   Otherwise just don't do VPN connection when you are hooked to the internet.  I wouldn't surf porn or little kids game too.

[mrhmoobportland]

Your question is technically inappropriate for the PH forums.  This is something you should have HIM direct to his computer support/IT Service Desk people to confirm.  Every company generally has a set of security guidelines for proper internet usage.  While some internet surfing is generally tolerated, you shouldn't risk getting him fired by using his laptop for personal use, unless you can get clearance from his direct management (in writing, preferably).

There are many reasons why you should not/cannot use your husband's work laptop to access the internet for personal reasons:

• If you're using VPN (which most people do), all the internet activity could possibly be logged and/or tracked.  I don't know about his workplace, but we record ours at my workplace!  Sometimes, this can be grounds for termination.  We don't waste time checking everyone's logs, but if you have performance issues, your manager can put in a request to query a thorough internet access log.  If we find you are surfing Facebook thousands of times a day and your productivity is down, you can bet your arse you'll get fired.
• You could possible get a virus/malware infection and compromise corporate information security!  Having your husband's name on the report that the CIO (chief information officer) sees for the security incident is not a good thing.  This usually results in disciplinary action and/or termination.  Virus/malware infections that occur through personal use of business computers is the number one reason for corporate security incidents.  A recent incident happened with the U.S. Air Force.  The Predator MQ-1 and Reaper MQ-9 ground command/control systems became infected with keylogger malware, which basically logs keystrokes and passwords.  They eventually traced this to some idiot installing a game, but haven't updated the public on who or what game that was. -- http://defense.aol.com/2011/10/07/computer-virus-infects-predator-ground-stations/
• Benign things like checking your email, clicking on links on your Facebook, or searching and clicking on links in Google can just as easily infect your husband's work laptop.  There are many, many ways for a virus to penetrate a system.  For some viruses, you don't even need to do anything!  It will seek out your computer and infect it, which is why at my workplace, we generally don't allow work-from-home employees to "share" their internet access with other computers.  They're required to get a dedicated modem and internet service for their work PC to segment it from their home network.
• At the last five places I've worked, I've yet to see a single antivirus/antispy system that works as well as what I have configured at home.  My point I'm getting at is that corporate security systems aren't the best, so it's very easy to get an infection.  The reason for this is that most systems require particular versions of software to be running in order to work, so this prevents the information systems support staff from updating to the latest patch or security update that comes out.  As a result, this leaves the corporate systems vulnerable to virus/malware attacks for months on end, until it finally gets addressed.

[yuknowthat]

i don't think you should use the work laptop for personal use at all because majority of internet access uses VPN and easily anyone can hacked into the company's work, whether how the business runs , lost sales, messages from the big bosses and other departments.