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Hobbies & Interests => Computer & Technology => Topic started by: thehotone on May 25, 2011, 07:57:52 AM
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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?
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I thought you were going to say you found him with some nake girls in his laptop. ;D
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;D
no.. i hope not! he's been looking into other ventures and hope his work doesn't keep track of it. (and i hope they are not reading this too)
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Unless your husband's work allow you to use his work laptop, I wouldn't do it. You both are compromising his work.
Anyhow, until the computer people on PH help you, I think I found a pretty good answer for you:
http://superuser.com/questions/184346/i-recently-used-my-work-laptop-while-at-home-and-logged-on-to-the-internet-via-my (http://superuser.com/questions/184346/i-recently-used-my-work-laptop-while-at-home-and-logged-on-to-the-internet-via-my). Good luck thehotone, hope you don't get caught.
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Yes we are allow to use his laptop. usually in the past, after a 2yr run, he gets a new one and we keep the old one around the house.
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That's the thing I am confuse about. He buys the laptop using their discount so basically its his but he uses their server for internet connection at home. I am figuring that since its his comp.. it should be ok and its not on company time ad I use it at home and on the road as well.
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That's the thing I am confuse about. He buys the laptop using their discount so basically its his but he uses their server for internet connection at home. I am figuring that since its his comp.. it should be ok and its not on company time ad I use it at home and on the road as well.
Sounds to me like a personal PC not managed by the company IT but also used for some work. Likely he's using the company's VPN. Regardless he should check with his company policy about such usage. Most company PC's or laptops have user level restrictions or browsing.
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Lame....are you guys still using dail-up to connect to his work place and go out to the internet from there? If not, and you are ready have DSL or cable why still go through them......we're missing something here.... ;D
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You and your husband need to quit accessing the internet.
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are you using a wireless card provided by work? it sounds like that's what you are using... if so... chk w/ work policy. just make sure u aren't browsing thru the porn sites.
if ur not using a wireless card.. just connect to your internet connection at home and they won't know since it's a personal laptop.
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YEah if you are using their network it's limited to whatever they restrict their network too reguardless of its your personal network or not.
It's simple as pie. Also you probably dont wanna be doing personal stuff on that network.
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lelia.. yea..my hsb says that his company provides the wireless card you mentioned bc he needs the net whereever he goes on his laptop.
poster, i talked to my hsb and it's not restricted. he talked to a friend in IT and he said that they only provide him with one b/c it's needed for his job.
We don't really do anything besides regular net browsing and watching netflix. :)
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If you have Internet access at home and don't have to VPN into your hubby's work place, it's totally safe. You can browse anything you want. If you're scare, just make sure you clear all cookies and temp files.
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It doesn't matter if it's after work hours. The thing is that you guys are using their network/internet. No employer likes that especially if it's for personal use. Oh and yes they can view every sites that you guys browse.
It looks like the internet doesn't go through your company. Internet is provided by the card and the card is going through ATT, Sprint, etc but your company pays the bill on it. Internet is not really being relayed to your company then to the "cloud". You are safe to use it as long as you don't exceed the bandwidth plan on the card. Check with the company and see if they can tell you what's the data plan on the card.
Just don't do any obscene surfing because if it gets infected and they have to fix it, they won't be too happy about it. They will report it to the boss.
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All activity done on a company's computer is 100% their business. They will know everything you did on it. Be careful and respect your husbands work.
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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...
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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.
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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/ (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.
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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.