Someone is hacking me Help please

[musiclawyer]

I work for local government. I'm the guy who, among other things reviews e retention policies and proper use policies. So to my surprise the tech services guy tells me I had been looking at porn and was reminded of the policy. Problem is I was not. Have never looked at porn on a work computer. ( I may be not the smartest guy in the room but Im not that dumb) Their printout showed my machine looking at some porn site on a days I was here. I usually delete browsing history periodically, But had not done so for three weeks. So I went back and looked at my history three weeks ago ( a week where my machine purportledy looked at a banned site) and lo and behold there was no history of me being at that site.

My office uses MS office XP with explorer of course. I would appreciate any suggestions or thoghts from some of you skilled with computers. What do you think is going on?

I changed my internal password as the request of tech services

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Your machine or your IP address?

It really depends on how they are logging the traffic. If they are only logging web requests based on source IP address, and your machine is configured to obtain an address via DHCP, someone could have easily setup a static address that matched your DHCP leased address. They really need to be logging both the IP and MAC address to make ensure that it was your workstation that browsed the site.

Other than that, your workstation could have requested the offending page if you have some form of malware running on your machine. Or you could have visited a page that contained a hidden IFRAME with the blocked site.

Fact is.. there are a lot of things that could have made it look like you were surfing for porn when you weren't. A lot depends on how your network is logging the traffic.

[musiclawyer]

2. Thanks.

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