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by lakota2k

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I work for a small NFP organization with a t-1 connection to the net. We have about 70-150 people traveling thru cyberspace at any given moment. Problem:
Most of the people who are here are just passing thru. They dont stay long and building a profile for tracking internet activity seems to be a waste of time. As they are all volunteers and we are a religiuos organization, we want to keep people away from certain sites that would not look good for the organization if that information were toget out! What is the best (cost wise) way to track where people are traveling to on the net without having to purchase a 5k firewall or some other exp. software title? Does Windows NT allow you to track that way?

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by big ray

Get a internet blocking software like netnanny, surfwatcher, or any other. They are relatively cheap, some are even free to NFP's, schools, governments, and students. Simply install it on the PC's and it will go the net and download a list of all offensive URL's. You can then modify the list removing or adding URL's that you deem worthy. The URL's are all grouped in categories like pornography, terrorism, gambling, etc...

The software also logs any attempts to access these sites so that you can inspect the logs to see who was logged in and what not allowed sites they have tried to visit.

It is sometimes funny to see peoples reations when they go to a site and they get the big red hand and the dialog "You have attempted to access a blocked site. This attempt and user ID has been logged."

by nicholasp

Do you have a proxy server of any sort?
If you do, then you can enable the server to track where usersers have been.
Then you can by Webtrends Analyzer (about $200) which can run reports on where users have been.

I have found that letting people know that you can track where they have been works just as well as the expensive and annoying netnany type products

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