From: "Gary Britt" 

Ah, I didn't know you had these kinds of special situations.  Makes it a
lot more understandable.  Why don't you just delete the web browser from
their computers 

Gary

"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:home4118ph7sj4ghmmt74e97ei6t9tk2l4{at}4ax.com...
> Why?   Do you imagine you would work as a telephone service
> representative in our call center?   I assure you we are not going to
> restrict access for our in-house counsel, who in fact is one of the
> people pushing for this because it will cut down on fraud by preventing
> the employees from taking customer information home by emailing it to
> themselves using their hotmail or whatever.
>
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:36:06 -0500, "Gary Britt"

> wrote in message :
>
> >I'd hate to work at your employers.
> >
> >Gary
> >
> >"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
> >news:frie411ubovd2ghdv5f67hdqd2rdcd22vq{at}4ax.com...
> >> Not my area of responsibility but I always like to help if I can:
> >> We want to restrict the rank-and-file users to a few allowed sites like
> >> FedEx and UPS.  In our morning briefing the other day it was stated
that
> >> everyone would have to have fixed IP addresses to do this (that part I
> >> understand, since the restrictions are not to apply to everyone) and we
> >> would have to have a proxy server.
> >>
> >> I actually don't know what a proxy server even is, but the IT director
> >> said it's complicated.   So first of all, is it true that we would need
> >> a proxy server?   And secondly, if so, is it complicated?
> >>
> >> Alternatively, is there any other way to do it?  We want to leave
people
> >> like directors and IT with full internet access.   Most boxes have no
> >> external IP address and a dynamic internal one.  The only ones with
> >> fixed internal ones are people who pcAW in to their desktop, which for
> >> all I know might only be me because when they set up an additional
> >> desktop for me recently they left the internal address dynamic and I
> >> couldn't get to it.
> >
>

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