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We are a small office.
We are networked. The server has Windows XP Home Version.

We KNOW one of the staff is spending hours on msn hotmail
instant messaging.

HOW CAN WE LEGALLY PROVE IT?

Ben
Tue Oct 05 02:40:32 CDT 2004

If they aren't getting their job done do you need to prove why? Just fire
them. (Note: This is not legal advice and I am not a lawyer)


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"Marty" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:23e601c4aaac$b103ce50$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> We are a small office.
> We are networked. The server has Windows XP Home Version.
>
> We KNOW one of the staff is spending hours on msn hotmail
> instant messaging.
>
> HOW CAN WE LEGALLY PROVE IT?

N
Tue Oct 05 03:58:37 CDT 2004

In article <23e601c4aaac$b103ce50$a501280a@phx.gbl>, Marty says...

> We are a small office.
> We are networked. The server has Windows XP Home Version.

> We KNOW one of the staff is spending hours on msn hotmail
> instant messaging.

> HOW CAN WE LEGALLY PROVE IT?

I am not a lawyer, so I can't tell you how to do anything under law. I can
suggest that you contract for the services of an attorney (U.S.A. term,
would this be a "solicitor" in the U.K.?) who specializes in employment
contracts. You will probably need some kind of terms of agreement where you
specify that you monitor all network traffic. This is within your rights, as
the owners of the equipment; but, in either the U.S., or the U.K., you
almost certainly need to advise your employees beforehand about doing this.

After that, you just add whatever is happening on the network to whatever
other performance matters in the employee's jacket; within the limits of
your employment laws, which is why you need the services of legal specialist
in the field. I saw a major U.S. corporation get their wrist slapped for
failing to follow legal guidelines in terminating an employee.

{Foolish employee was reinstated; but thought he was "bulletproof". The next
time they canned him, they had crossed all of their 't's, and dotted all of
their 'I's; it stuck, then.}

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cedric
Tue Oct 05 06:19:02 CDT 2004



"Marty" wrote:

> We are a small office.
> We are networked. The server has Windows XP Home Version.
>
> We KNOW one of the staff is spending hours on msn hotmail
> instant messaging.
>
> HOW CAN WE LEGALLY PROVE IT?
>

dont prove it:

log in on his computer as an administrator and deny access to messenger
thrue the local policies

G
Tue Oct 05 07:30:49 CDT 2004

Marty wrote:
> We are a small office.
> We are networked. The server has Windows XP Home Version.
>
> We KNOW one of the staff is spending hours on msn hotmail
> instant messaging.
>
> HOW CAN WE LEGALLY PROVE IT?

First make a written company-wide policy that using MSN Messenger/IM is
against the rules and a person can be fired for installing and or using
it and make it clear management has the right to monitor the use of its
computers, make each person read and sign a copy of the policy. Then
remove MSN Messenger from the systems. If anyone reinstalls MSN
Messenger you have your culprit. Belarc Advisor is a free download, it
can inventory all the software on a system, it might help. A key logger
can log everything the person types including messenger window contents.

g-w