Boss has challenged all Staff ! ! !

[excelll-ent]

 

[Greg Truby]

{snip}By the way why should we help you get a hike and make you a hero in the office? Surely if you were deserving of this you wouldn't need our help.

Just my 2¢ here - but I'd reckon that'd depend on the nature of the business the company is in. If the company is a security services company and the employees are expected to be professionals at testing / breaking security systems, then I'd agree; our OP should know this.

If the company is in a general line of commerce and the boss is trying to utilize the creativity and resourcefulness of his staff to see if they can find, discover or learn how to break this as a means of increasing his company's ability to keep data secure then I reckon Excelll-ent is simply being resourceful. He was open about what he's up to and why. And he did post it in the lounge, after all :wink:.

 

[Norie]

Greg

This wasn't originally posted in the lounge.

I may have been a bit harsh but I had just spent considerable time trying the OP's link.

I lost count of the number of pop-ups I encountered.

And it eventually led to nothing anyway.

Why not give it a try yourself?

 

[Greg Truby]

After what Smitty posted and now you? Nah, I'll take it on faith that it's a snipe hunt. Also, I hope I didn't sound too self-righteous with that last post (especially if this didn't start out in the lounge).

 

[Smitty]

Pop-ups suck, especially now that our crack IS Team (yeah, on crack! ) deleted my Google toolbar (along with its nifty pop-up blocker) as an "illegal softwares", and wrote me up for it to boot.

I won't EVEN start to deal with something like that.

Smitty

 

[Von Pookie]

Hey Smitty--they haven't blocked your USB ports, have they?

http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/

I used this for a few months, it worked pretty well for me. As far as I know, the only thing it really does outside of the USB drive is to create a Mozilla directory in the Application Data. That's something to do with Firefox itself, though, and nothing is actually saved on the PC (like bookmarks, extensions, etc.)

 

[Smitty]

they haven't blocked your USB ports, have they?

No, but WebSense blocks the **** link!

I'll check from home...

Thanks,

Smitty

 

[malcom]

you guys all are talking about pop-ups.. how come i never encountered any when trying to download the file?
after i clicked the link... i was already to choose location and filename... then thats it.. no pop-up at all...
maybe its because my setting of blocking pop-ups is very effective..

 

[Von Pookie]

I think they're referring to the popups that appear after clicking the link you posted, not the link to download the file.

Edit: I don't think popups happen all the time, though. Probably depends on what ads they're displaying at the time.

I had to open the link in IE and saw the google toolbar block at least 1-2. Then I turned off the blocker and clicked the link again and got no popups. *shrug*

 

[davulf]

IS anyone ever deserving of anything? The answer is no.