Can they monitor me at work
 

I am thinking about using Limewire at work.

Can the sys admin know exactly what I am downloading?

How can I tell if they can?

Thanks
Bored at work

The Sysadmin can see everything that is passed through his network. And I know companies where people get fired, if they try to run P2P apps.

If I were you, I wouldn't want to take the risk.

He's right they can tell everything, even read your e-mail (unless you pgp encrypt it).

What nazi's fire you for that though?

Certain German companies have the policy of firing employees for "abuse of their internet connection".

I was even denied access to the internet connection of the university dormitory I live in permanently, because I was running an FTP-server with a couple of movies (though hardly anyone ever connected to, it, since nobody except for a few friends of mine knew of it).

But maybe that's because the sysadmin of our network doesn't like me anymore, after I told him where he could shove certain large objects.

Lol your'e funny. I was just saying "nazis" to be facecious. Do you live in Germany? Germany is awesome!

Yup, Germany is awesome, and that's why I live there, or should I say 'here'?

Are you originally from germany? Most germans I talk to don't think it's so great, they think the US is better. US sucks.

I know they can tell you are using LimeWire, but can they see what Files you are downloading and stuff? How does that work?

The name of the file you want to download is posted as plain text in your http-header. Also your search requests are plain text.

Network sniffers provide for filters, that can be used to filter out specific packets, - for example http-requests that have a destination port other than port 80 & 8080. A few packet sniffers even recognize gnutella messages and can show them easily.

Not to mention there are all sorts of other monitoring software in teh corporate world. They can pretty be alterted of anything they want. For example when you install a new peice of software and what it is. They can just look on your hard drive too if they want to. Some companies even have programs that catalog the hardware that's attached ot the comptuer nad if anything changes they will be alerted (i.e. to prevent people from stealing memory).