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Monitoring Internet Browsing

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Murugs

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I am being asked to monitor the internet usage of several people in my company. I have no idea how to incorporate this. We have a T1 line connected to a firewall and a router and a win2k server running as PDC and nearly 18-20 clients all including 98,xp machines. W2k runs DHCP.
How do I monitor particular machines and their internet browsing habits..I have never meddled with my PIX firewall as I am little hesitant to do..as I am not fully aware of.
Is it something to do in the firewall ..or should I install any software..Sorry If I posted this question in the wrong place.

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MP
 
On win 98 machines, do a file search for " index.dat " there should be several of these under temp internet files; or internet explorer folders. Copy these from the file finder to another location and then view with notepad (or wordpad, might be a message that the file is too large for notepad) In these files will be a listing of all the URL's visited by the machine in question.

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You can also get an easy rundown by running Spider (freeware):

...and saving the .txt file that it produces.
 
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