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Other than the OP may be running WinXP, how does this relate to XP security,
except the OP has none. It is also evident Juan is completely uninformed on
work place policies and past court rulings in which employees use their
employer's equipment, whether it be a computer, copier, stapler, pen/pencil
or paper for personal use is concerned. All being used as such can be used
for just termination with cause (making one ineligible for unemployment
benefits), if said employer chooses to. It all belongs to the employer,
whether it be her personal business is irrelevant, and though many
employer's overlook some personal business as incidental, none will actually
approve of personal business in corporate policy as it becomes a liability.
To expound upon Rena's situation, we have no clue as to whether this
co-worker is a member of a domain admin group, thus to the average user,
would not show up as even a user of the system. Also, we don't know if the
system is secured, running FAT32 file system, or have had personal folders
redirected to a networked users folder for backup, again where a domain
admin would have access. Now depending on her position within the company
and the co-workers position in the company she may need to take matters up
with her supervisor, manager, director, IT or HR departments. Lastly, maybe
the co-worker is giving Rena a hint, maybe he/she knows the company is on to
her using the computer for personal use and he/she is trying to subtly warn
her before she is terminated, maybe the co-worker is the one that has been
requested to provide managers, supervisor, directors, or the HR and IT
departments with collaborating evidence to prove such personal use. Maybe
on the other hand she is doing legit company business requiring the utmost
in being secured from prying eyes, such as employee reviews, salary
increases/decreases, reprimands, etc, again here, her manager, supervisor,
director and IT security needs to be informed for corrective actions, both
to increase her PC security and to possibly start termination actions on
said co-worker, again as this co-worker could be circumventing IT security
in some manner to gain unauthorized access to personal data.
Rena, read, think and take the appropriate action(s), either you need to
cleanup your act or need to have someone else's act cleaned up.
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"Juan" <soyquiensoy@terra.com> wrote in message
news:OjAU6hsbFHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Gentlemen; I believe you all are missing the point, what Rena says is that
> co-workers are snooping on her private matters and the right to privacy is
> everyone's legal right be it in the USA or anywhere else and that includes
> the workplace unless company policy states otherwise.... and she did
> mention
> she has nothing to hide, so it's not a matter of privacy but of
> harassment.
> Co-workers do not have the right to look or try to look at her personal
> stuff,... that,.. gentlemen, is against the law and you should not be
> taking
> sides with the snoopers unless you believe that civil right in the US and
> specially for women should be taken a notch back... She mentioned only
> co-workers and not superiors... so this comment; ("A company computer
> should
> be used for company business only, regardless of what you may think, and
> they have a right to enforce it") has no place here, she did not mention
> any
> superiors snooping in subordinate's matters, it's the other way arround,
> she seems to be the superior in the department, her being the
> administrator
> in the computer seems to prove it... the only thing she has against her is
> that she seems to be the most computer illiterate in the department and
> coworkers are taking advantage of that. So, it's up to you to help her
> not
> to take sides in an ntifeministic maner. Sorry if i'm being blunt
> gentlemen, but respect is what society needs more of and with your
> comments,
> you are not helping to make things any better.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> "rena" <rena@discussions.microsoft.com> escribió en el mensaje
> news:89DD4DD1-F246-43EC-9BED-7FB446FD9567@microsoft.com...
>> Hi, my question is this. My coworkers or 1 of them snoops on my p.c. I am
> the
>> administrater of the P.C. . I have made a password for my log in,always
> clear
>> history, cookies and so on yet he still knows when i log in when i log
>> out
>> whom has messeged me on yahoo messenger and where I have been. I havnt
>> anything to hide but it realy bothers me and i believe in privacy. Can
> anyone
>> help me keep my buisness only my buisness?
>
>