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I would like to know what website user are accessing?

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wolwol

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Apr 3, 2006
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Any one know of a free program that I can use on my network to see what website users are going to?

Thank
 
you could do a "trial" of surfcontrol if you only want to look over the next 30 days or whatever?
 
1) Any particular reason or being nosy?
2) There are free index.dat file readers available.
3) Setup a proxy server (Squid for example), redirect all http traffic towards it, enable logging.
 
A quick and dirty way of checking what URL's are being browsed would be to configure your DNS server to log the resolved hosts to an ascii file and then write a small script using find and a for loop to display the resolved hosts. (DNS log is kind of messy)

This way you don't have to install any (3rd party) (trial) software on your servers.

Downside is that you don't see the complete URL's because DNS only handles the hosts ofcourse. So:
"- will show in the log as something like -
"
 
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