It's a performance issue!

[draggar]

Wow this thread got hijacked all to hell...

[Pedersen]

And that, I feel, is my fault.

I'm sorry for that.

I'll try to keep my huge-assed mouth shut in future.

[Ree]

I'll try to keep my huge-assed mouth shut in future.

Sweet!!! You know, we have a PM feature for a reason.

...Anyway, back on topic...

[draggar]

Back to the topic!

So, the team is still complaining that their computers are a POS and we need to fix these "performance issues" that are usually either application based or caused by spyware.

We've been tracking these down and most of their issues are caused by malicious programs trying to attack or deactivate Sygate or McAffee (antivirus, firewall etc..). None of the approved sites do this so you can guess where they're getting it.

Can I grab their cookies (remotely) and put them in my machine to access their sites and change their profiles on lower-securty sites (such as beginner forums etc..). It would be really funny to change one rep's MySpace page for some rather interesting things.

Of course, they all deny surfing to unapproved sites and I just show their history, their login plugged right next to the cookie reference for the site.

Don't lie to your IT guys.

[LostMyMind]

mmmhhhh, I wonder if you could have all the brower replace with a low-ability browser (like, no plug ins, no saving, etc....). Granted there are ways around that but we're talking about people who can't keep spyware off the computer in the first place.

[draggar]

Can't, a lot of their web based applications need the plugins many of which are also common with your spyware filled sites.

[LostMyMind]

darn that sucks. Too bad you can't install comodo firewall and password it with the browser completely block from doing things like saving/executing a file

[otakuneko]

Can I grab their cookies (remotely) and put them in my machine to access their sites

Is Windows File Sharing enabled? Then yes.

If you're using IE you could also at the very least set your needed stuff in the trusted zone, then crank up the security restrictions on the internet zone. IE-SpyAd may be worth looking into as well.

[BlackIronCrown]

On reflection, I edit my post out.
The discussion on CPU/OS arcana got too far involved than I usually prefer to discuss online.

[Chromatix]

On reflection, I edit my post out.
The discussion on CPU/OS arcana got too far involved than I usually prefer to discuss online.

Oh yes. That was a discussion I stayed well out of, even though I *definitely* know my stuff on that subject.

[Broomjockey]

The discussion on CPU/OS arcana got too far involved than I usually prefer to discuss online.

Oh yes. That was a discussion I stayed well out of

And I swear anyone even so much as *thinks* of starting that conversation up again, I'll lock you in a room full of CD players playing Bananaphone on infinite loop.

[Pedersen]

And I swear anyone even so much as *thinks* of starting that conversation up again

I just wanted to point out ...

/me awaits the small non-padded cell with really bad music

[Broomjockey]

*ties Pederson up, throws him in, and throws in some death metal to break up the bananaphone every once in a while*

Draggar, is there any way to move to a whitelist of sites for them, so that they can only go to what's on the list, rather than telling them no?

[Pedersen]

*ties Pederson up, throws him in, and throws in some death metal to break up the bananaphone every once in a while*

Hey, you never mentioned tying me up. I require dinner before I let that sort of thing happen. A nice one, too!

Draggar, is there any way to move to a whitelist of sites for them, so that they can only go to what's on the list, rather than telling them no?

That's what we had to do where I used to work. The only way to get the sales floor people off the internet and onto helping customers was to set the proxy server to only allow certain sites, and deny everything else.

It sucked. The number of complaints was huge, and store managers complained because we didn't have a complete list of sites the sales floor people needed, but wouldn't tell us when we were missing one.

Of course, it did work. Sales people sold to customers because there was nothing else to do.

If you go that route, Draggar, just be ready for the slew of complaints, because they will happen. And good luck.

[otakuneko]

I can haz bananaphone nao?