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I know the first time I saw the ePolicy Orchestrator Agent icon on the bottom right of my computer I googled that to find out what the hell exactly that was. I'll bet that's what set the OP off. :P

What someone needs to build is a website with an ambiguous name that filters/blocks your other site visits (or obscures the hell out of them) by going through it in the same way socks use proxy ip addresses to get around bannings from forums like this. On that note, go through google as much as possible. Better to type through search engines rather than directly type out h t t p : // [N A M E] etc. Copy and Paste is always better than typing. And damn, clean out those gamer related bookmarks!

Some people have to have been fired on the basis of typical surfing of the net, or it's bound to happen. Yeah, it's not the IT guys that will come after you, but some supervisor person can very well order the IT guys to track you. The cat certainly has the upper hand on the mouse currently.

I wouldn't really worry about stuff you type as posts nearly as much as the record that you visits site like this and click and have it open at all hours and minutes of the workday. Yup, they are out to get out you, but don't worry, they won't catch you, 'cause you're ******* innocent! ;p

In theory, absolutely any and all data that is transmitted across a network can be logged and read by those with the correct access levels.

In practice, that's absolutely impossible to do with any granularity. Unless you've got resources like the NSA, you simply can't do it. A modest network generates absoultely huge amounts of network traffic in a day, and if you logged all of it (including content), you'd never be able to buy disk fast enough.

You can log connections made of course. And that's typically what's done. But no one actually looks at those logs. They're only tracked when there's a need to do so (security event typically). Some companies may track the top sites connected to by their employees, but that's typically not a big deal either.

Your company should have a policy for web use. Read it. See what it says. While I'm sure there are some braindead businesses where the policy is zero tolerance on any web activity not directly work related, that's the exception and not the norm. Any sane business measures employee value by productivity. If you earn your salary, you earn your salary, regardless of how many sites you access during the day. Metricing web access is an incredibly stupid way to measure your employees productivity, and not many companies are going to do it that way.

I'd avoid checking out **** sites from work of course, but unless you're in one of those crazy strict businesses, I'd not worry too much about it. No one really cares what you do on your computer as long as you get your work done. Certainly not enough to employ the resources needed to track web usage just to nail people.