05-26-2004, 04:10 PM
I hope this doesn't go under the "personal attacks" section!
Moose -- I am an IT Specialist that has to deal with internet users everyday at my company. Not only is wasted time factored in to shutting down the internet to users. I spend half my time at work cleaning off adware / spyware from all the computers in the plant. This is a major problem with many computers in our company. We have some computers that monitor machinery throughout the plant, and if one of those computers, for whatever reason, cannot see the machinery anymore we could have a major explosion (we're talking big bombs here!). Those computers have had internet access turned off for over a year now...and users hate us for it. With the recent explosion in internet Adware many more companies will be shutting off internet access. It's not because some Joe in the next department was downloading porn. It's because YOU went to a perfectly legitimate site, and ended up with some active-X program downloading and installing in the background without you knowing, or clicking "yes". They just happen. Next thing you know, your computer is so full of pop-up ads, and toolbars that you can't get any work done. Now, I have to show up and fix it, instead of doing other more important things on the network. Disabling your access to the internet may actually imporve the performance of you computer. I can't tell you how many times I have had users complain about their P4 2.8 Ghz computer being too slow. Then, I open up an internet browser, and they have 14 toolbars installed, and 400 popup windows show up....It's not always their fault this happened, but it is very preventable.
It is a said thing, because the internet can be so very useful. But, there is also a lot of crap out there. If the internet is not needed for you job function, I personally would like to see it shut off your computer. Until somthing can be done about adware / spyware / and viruses, the only thing a user that doesn't need the internet can do, is screw up the computer.
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Moose -- I am an IT Specialist that has to deal with internet users everyday at my company. Not only is wasted time factored in to shutting down the internet to users. I spend half my time at work cleaning off adware / spyware from all the computers in the plant. This is a major problem with many computers in our company. We have some computers that monitor machinery throughout the plant, and if one of those computers, for whatever reason, cannot see the machinery anymore we could have a major explosion (we're talking big bombs here!). Those computers have had internet access turned off for over a year now...and users hate us for it. With the recent explosion in internet Adware many more companies will be shutting off internet access. It's not because some Joe in the next department was downloading porn. It's because YOU went to a perfectly legitimate site, and ended up with some active-X program downloading and installing in the background without you knowing, or clicking "yes". They just happen. Next thing you know, your computer is so full of pop-up ads, and toolbars that you can't get any work done. Now, I have to show up and fix it, instead of doing other more important things on the network. Disabling your access to the internet may actually imporve the performance of you computer. I can't tell you how many times I have had users complain about their P4 2.8 Ghz computer being too slow. Then, I open up an internet browser, and they have 14 toolbars installed, and 400 popup windows show up....It's not always their fault this happened, but it is very preventable.
It is a said thing, because the internet can be so very useful. But, there is also a lot of crap out there. If the internet is not needed for you job function, I personally would like to see it shut off your computer. Until somthing can be done about adware / spyware / and viruses, the only thing a user that doesn't need the internet can do, is screw up the computer.
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