Hypothetically speaking..........

If you wanted to remove a couple of items from the server's web history log thingmy, where would you need to go (other than onto the server) to remove this information?

chances are if it's at a place of work then they will have a dedicated firewall and most of the logging of websites visited will be on there.

If you wanted to remove a couple of items from the server's web history log thingmy, where would you need to go (other than onto the server) to remove this information?

Are you look (hypothetically speaking) to remove entries in a log file on a web server which has been accessed, or to remove the entries from somewhere else on the path to the web server (for example, as the gavsters says, a firewall)?

Rob.

If you'd looked at a web site and then realised the IT consultant who seemed to hate your guts (and hence could hold it against you etc.) would know about it - how would you remove the log of your visit?

how would you remove the log of your visit?

Unfortunately, most accurate answer is "it depends".

Chances are it will at least be logged on the firewall/proxy server...so you'd need to log in to that and clear/amend the logs. There could also be a chance that they were running some other web-usage logging software which would need to be amended...

Without knowing the setup, it's hard to be specific.

It would probably just be easier to settle your differences with the IT Consultant...

Rob.

There are far to many difference to settle! Most annoying of which is his "trial and error" method of doing things Very frustrating watching a bloke gettin gpaid for guess work.

Just had a browse on the router (Netgear DG834) and there are no logs on there at all. Interestingly I found the password was different to the server password - A quick google to find the defaults had it sorted

The router goes straight out to BT with the only logging being for errors.

There are far to many difference to settle! Most annoying of which is his "trial and error" method of doing things Very frustrating watching a bloke gettin gpaid for guess work.

i think the phrase you are looking for is Problem solving or indeed Fault finding.

spot the IT support man!

It really is trial and error! Fault finding requires a fault this guy struggles through installing a network printer.

The guy used to work as a solicitor but having supervised their upgrade from peer-to-peer network to a server based system he's set up on his own.

It's amazing who can get away with calling themselves a "consultant" these days!

Even me!

me too....

Phil,

Unless your going via a proxy or a very clever router, not sure the netgear counts your possibly okay.

If you really wish to confuse him, on your home lan knock up a vpn and connect to that...

me too....

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Unless your going via a proxy or a very clever router, not sure the netgear counts your possibly okay.

If you really wish to confuse him, on your home lan knock up a vpn and connect to that... [/quote']

Ahh yes. this could be your only way to get round the snooper. remote desktop into your machine at home and surf from there.

My slow upload speed from home will limit my surfing speed though wont it ?

IE is set to use a proxy server.

Would it be worth changing the IE settings to go directly through the Netgear router ?

My slow upload speed from home will limit my surfing speed though wont it ?

IE is set to use a proxy server.

Would it be worth changing the IE settings to go directly through the Netgear router ?

worth a try, but tyou might find that the firewall/proxy is sat in front of the router. If so you wont get anywhere.

Well, I've tried simply changing th eproxy IP to that of the router - it worked briefly, enough to load the search box from google, before it seems that the server has locked it down and then it diddnt work.

Is it worth changing the default gateway in TCP/IP to the IP address of the router?

Depends, if your upstream is 256k it's not too bad...and it's better than a proxy log on your desk come review time.

I do alot of googling and reading of sites that on the face of it looks like I sit on the web all day, but I have now at least, very few paper manuals, if I get stuck I'll google for it. This on occasion takes you to an odd site. So I just sit on my vpn'd connection all day...better to vpn than remote desktop as the upstream does make it tedious, but it's possible.

Vigour make some nice and easy to use routers for vpn'ing, greeat if out an about in a hotspot, just vpn to home and I can get files / access to servers etc

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Remove proxy settings.

Change gateway to that of the routers ip, you may want to take a couple of dns servers too as your not getting your ip via dhcp.

You may also note this is bypassing a work policy and have consequences, I say; fault finding in internal systems, or security breach, should of been done properly if your really up against it.

I've found ISA managment on the server and it has some nice pretty reports listing the most accessed websites etc.

The top one is actually www.briskoda.net

Now, where do I go to edit the data from which those reports are generated?

DONE!

Tab delimited logs are in the ISA installation folder.

Simply open them up into excel, excluding the first 4 rows, sort in order of site visited, delete offending sites, re-sort and save out again

Works a treat for anyone else who's interested.

*cough* backups

*cough* audit log...

Rob.

there must be a cold doing the rounds or something

I think you are missing the obvious here. This IT guy is a gimp by the sounds of it. He probably wouldnt have the slightest notion were to look for any logs anyway let alone work out it was you accessed an particular site on a particular date. I really wouldnt worry yourself.

The bloke IS a total gimp. But he seems to have developed a hatred for me (probably because he's worried about us not renewing his contract).

I know he's looked at a log because he once called me a skoda annorak and joked that we "even had a website". Only way he'd know that would be to see briskoda on the logs.

So...what were the couple of sites you visited which you didn't want him to know about? :rubchin:

Rob.

Yeah what were these sites. As TomVrs says we're a friendly bunch on here. You can tell us anything.