How to tell if your company is monitoring you at work

http://bgr.com/2012/08/30/employee-monitoring-software-detection-how-to/?utm_source=related-sb&utm_medium=article / security spy spying abuse intranet LAN businesses employer rights install software monitors company owned computers reports report IT department information technology details employees doing company dime money expense time status updates Facebook account technical tech news employers safest play personal browsing chats smartphone determine whether or not your computer is being monitored bugged subtle tactics spying on you Windows users digging through start up programs folders entries VNC Shadow Web Sleuth Silent Watch good first step catching lazy IT workers who didn't bother covering their tracks next step snoop around your Windows Firewall settings to see if permissions have been granted to any suspicious programs Windows Task Manager big help as well be prepared search Google Bing Yahoo every process you don't recognize OSX OS X Macintosh Apple Mac Apple Micorsoft Yahoo News Activity Monitor search Web unknown process names spying software depending on the solution your company is using to watch  IT department may be able to figure out that you're hunting for monitoring software pretty easily. Search the Web for application and process names on your phone if possible, and definitely don't try to delete any suspicious software you find. Instead, use that knowledge to your benefit by performing personal tasks on your phone notes that a VPN virtual private network service will allow you to surf the Web securely, thus hiding your traffic from the corporate network /