my horrible secret(porn on company laptop)

Zonkytonkman

So yeah, i've got a company laptop and i take it home at night. ?Mostly for email, forums and work related stuff, but also occasionally porn, until i get my desktop shipped up from home.

My question is: since i'm surfing via my home network, and not work, as long as i remove the superficial evidence of my sins like cache and history and what not, it should be nigh undetectable, right?

Doc

Who knows what logging software they might have running.

I would advise you to halt the activity right away.

aesir

depends if they have some monitoring software on it that you dont know about I suppose. But I'd also think that if they don't have monitoring software, then they probably wont be checking anytime soon.

Zonkytonkman

it's a fairly small company, less than 20 people, the laptop was bought for me and handed to me almost fresh out of the box, i think the IT guy had his hands on it for 20 mins. I'd be very surprised if he even would have had a chance to install a logger

redx

Yeah, if they don't have shit on it, you should be safe, but... who knows?

I don't really see why you couldn't just buy a few dvds and take care of busness that way, untill you get your desktop.

You don't need internet porn so badly that it is worth risking your job over, do you?


I don't think it is likely or anything, but think about how much of an idiot you'd feel like if you got busted and fired.

Zonkytonkman

redx wrote:

Yeah, if they don't have shit on it, you should be safe, but... who knows?

I don't really see why you couldn't just buy a few dvds and take care of busness that way, untill you get your desktop.

You don't need internet porn so badly that it is worth risking your job over, do you?


I don't think it is likely or anything, but think about how much of an idiot you'd feel like if you got busted and fired.

yeah, this is very likely what i'll do. I just didn't want to waste money on a DVD if there was no worry whatsoever.

Thanatos

Did they install any software on it? If so, do you have the discs to those pieces of software?

You could just surf porn to your heart's content, then reformat the HD before you give it back.

TheFallenLord

You could also use a Linux "Live" CD, where it boots the OS off the CD. Ubuntu live is fairly popular, and comes equipped w/ a web browser.

LondonBridge

I worked for a small ISP and had 2 gigs of porn on my lap top at the time. If its a company of 20 that your work for then I wouldn't worry.

Yar

Don't forget "Recent Documents." File names can still be there even after everything else is wiped clean.

Captain K

Man, what are you thinking. You really shouldn't be doing this. There's so many safer ways to get your jerk on; who knows what could happen if you keep this up? You forget to clear the history, your boss requisitions your work laptop when his goes on the fritz and you're out to lunch, he sees the porn history. Shit, that sounds totally plausible and I thought of it in about ten seconds.

Take the safe route here and just stop doing it.

Feral

Any URLs you visit in MSIE are also stored in the registry in a set of keys called UserAssist, encrypted in (I shit you not) ROT-13. (For the non-crypto geeks, ROT-13 is where you just shift the alphabet over 13 spaces - in other words, the same "encryption" you might have played with in second grade.) It remains even if you clear your cache and browser history.

It's trivial for a semi-competent IT manager to pull that info down via the network and view it without you knowing. (It's also trivial for a semi-competent IT manager to install an invisible keylogger across the network without you knowing.)

Andorien

I second the Live Linux CD. It should solve all your issues.

blincoln

You're probably not going to get caught, but it's probably going to get you in a lot of trouble if you do. IMO it's not worth it. Even at my company, where we don't look for that kind of thing, I've noticed it during routine scans and running of reports.

FishMist

Feral wrote:

Any URLs you visit in MSIE are also stored in the registry in a set of keys called UserAssist, encrypted in (I shit you not) ROT-13. (For the non-crypto geeks, ROT-13 is where you just shift the alphabet over 13 spaces - in other words, the same "encryption" you might have played with in second grade.) It remains even if you clear your cache and browser history.

It's trivial for a semi-competent IT manager to pull that info down via the network and view it without you knowing. (It's also trivial for a semi-competent IT manager to install an invisible keylogger across the network without you knowing.)

Is this UserAssist registry key dependant on your version of IE or windows? Just out of curiousity I had a look at regedit on my work comp here and I can't see any key named UserAssist under HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->Microsoft->Internet Explorer. I did find one called TypedURLs but the entries under are not encrypted (laughably or otherwise).

JHunz

FishMist wrote:

Feral wrote:

Any URLs you visit in MSIE are also stored in the registry in a set of keys called UserAssist, encrypted in (I shit you not) ROT-13. (For the non-crypto geeks, ROT-13 is where you just shift the alphabet over 13 spaces - in other words, the same "encryption" you might have played with in second grade.) It remains even if you clear your cache and browser history.

It's trivial for a semi-competent IT manager to pull that info down via the network and view it without you knowing. (It's also trivial for a semi-competent IT manager to install an invisible keylogger across the network without you knowing.)

Is this UserAssist registry key dependant on your version of IE or windows? Just out of curiousity I had a look at regedit on my work comp here and I can't see any key named UserAssist under HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->Microsoft->Internet Explorer. I did find one called TypedURLs but the entries under are not encrypted (laughably or otherwise).

Try HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\UserAssist