Can my employer track my internet history if I am browsing the web on my home computer via remote desktop?
I work in an office environment where most personal web content is blocked. I can avoid the filters by using remote desktop to log into my home PC for web browsing but I am concerned that my employer may still be able to track my browsing history.
Yes your employer can track your history via the internet using your remote desktop from work to your home pc. Your home pc as well will keep track of all that information. Business now days need to protect their assets and use Internet Authentication Services to track potential threats and create rules to allow\disallow content from infecting the work environment. The only way you have a work around is to create a virtual workspace because when you run a virtual machine within a machine, its as if the virtual machine doesn’t exist. I hope that made sense. Here is a software that you can find out more information from, but the rule of thumb is that if you can see it on your desktop, then your IS people can see it too.
http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/
March 25th, 2010 at 9:07 pm
Depending on the IT staff and their knowledge and the software they use the answer is probably YES.
Besides, your at work, do your work. The stuff is blocked for a reason.
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I’m an IT person for a company.
March 25th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
no. practically you are using your home computer, when you use remote desktop.
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March 25th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Surprised by your disloyalty to your employer. If I was he, it would be time for a pink slip
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March 25th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Just download Google Chrome and use Incognito Mode. No one will be able to see what you look at.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of3jcPTD9IY
March 25th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
NO
Their logs will only show that you accessed the IP address that points to your computer… they can however block that IP address and shut you down.. so it will work until they catch on.
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March 25th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
Probably not. I can’t be sure of this but he would have to be looking for it. RDP connections are encrypted. The http traffic would be inside of that RDP tunnel. I’m not saying that it can’t be done but it would have to take some effort above and beyond web filtering.
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March 25th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Yes your employer can track your history via the internet using your remote desktop from work to your home pc. Your home pc as well will keep track of all that information. Business now days need to protect their assets and use Internet Authentication Services to track potential threats and create rules to allow\disallow content from infecting the work environment. The only way you have a work around is to create a virtual workspace because when you run a virtual machine within a machine, its as if the virtual machine doesn’t exist. I hope that made sense. Here is a software that you can find out more information from, but the rule of thumb is that if you can see it on your desktop, then your IS people can see it too.
http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/
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March 25th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
be carefull as you are still going through your employers network to access your computer so they could still get funny with you if they disagree with what your looking at , even if its facebook and with the jobs situation it would be a shame to end up out on your ear if they decided to nit pick.
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