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Question

SPIED ON AT WORK?

Apr 2, 2016 11:28PM PDT

So, I go home after work. Log in to my cable internet desktop email...and suddenly see all of my work email in the Inbox and sent?
Huh?
Do the Scooby Doo thing.
Then....
I go to my work email and see if something is crazy....
And my work email is gone.
All of it.
Wiped clean.
Okay.
So I call the cable company and they give me "advanced tech" support and they say, "Wow...okay, your work and home email are NOT synced, but call us in the morning from your work.."
So, I do.
I log in and call them just as they asked.
They tell me to go to the start menu
They ask what I see.
They give me a list of things that are suspicious.
In my START email at work..the thing with the programs most used..the initial thing is this:
ultravnc...
two of them
with eyeballs
So I call tech support...I work for a school district
and they say that ultravnc is on all district computers
and somehow it was refreshed and on my start up menu
a day later
I get all from the head of Cyber Security for the district
and he does a remote access thing
shows me where there was no invasion
I ask him
so, how do the eyeballs and ultravnc happen in my start up?
he says I could have opened an email with a virus or have poked around in my computer and it is my fault for it being there.
Uh, no.
I am a 53 year old mother.
Hate Pcs. Mac woman.
These jerks are lying.
Right?

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Answer
For the topic question.
Apr 3, 2016 7:24AM PDT

They usually call it monitoring. Given they have UltraVNC and more, what you do on their computers is logged, watched and such. It's not your private PC so you should treat it as if everyone can see what is done there.

Again, this is not spying as it's not your machine.

As to the event, well, there's so much malware that can hit and vanish that today I know I may never uncover what happened. This can really unhinge some folk.

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SPIED ON AT WORK?
Apr 3, 2016 10:08AM PDT

Oh yes, I totally understand and embrace the facts it is NOT my computer, my information, it all belongs to the employer ...completely. I never do anything on my work computer that I wouldn't share with the world.

HOWEVER, why did my home email address get all jacked up? Why was all of my work email erased and why was ultravnc in my start menu...I asked a few colleagues if they could pull up their Start menus and the eyeballs were NOT there...

Just said I had some funky stuff in mine and thought it could be a virus.

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ReL virus
Apr 3, 2016 10:57AM PDT

If you are afraid you have a virus at your work computer, contact the help desk / IT staff and let them clean it up. That's their job.

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Didn't the IT support write they insttall UltraVNC?
Apr 3, 2016 11:12AM PDT

"So I call tech support...I work for a school district
and they say that ultravnc is on all district computers"

Since they remotely control these PCs all bets are off what may show up in menus. Annoying but a PC under such control is well, never know what they'll do next. Can be as jarring as a Jack in the Box.

As to the email, there's not enough for me to speculate.