Network setting advice...

What make and model router do you have? Some routers have the ability to do site filtering by IP address, rather than globally.

We have a D-Link DI-624 Router. I do have all of the individual computer addresses here on a list, but I did not find that option while I was poking around.

By the way, the last post was at 1 am. Are you crazy? Oh no, that is right you are just young.

I'm a fan of some management intervening there.

So often are workplaces "managed" by software, that the contact, communication skill (or lack thereof) and relationship of drone and middle manager are left in oblivion with "softmanaging" what sounds like your problem.

Make it known that ____ isn't acceptable, have them sign a document that they've been warned, and implement a strike in whatever process of people being gone from your company is.

The best way to fertilize ill seeds in your company is to have someone just suddently not be able to break the rules like there were able to previously. You'll also rid yourself of what others in the company might think in regard to "what happened."

Ensuring a clear, fair and concise, easy to follow message ("if you choose to frequent the same sites you have been previously, you'll need to leave our company") makes for a definitive line of choice for your employee, rather than hoping that one day, you/your IT people forget to implement the filters one day.

I don't think that model router will do IP level filtering. It's a generally more advanced feature, and that's a basic consumer-grade no-frills unit. I'll have to look into it more, though.

I must say I do agree with Mike, though. It's probably better to simply log what sites the users are visiting, so that you can confront them with a list of their inappropriate behaviour.

Filtering systems aren't intelligent -- you have to specify what sites are disallowed. So banning a few sites they frequent will likely cause them to just find something else, rather than making them actually adjust their behaviour.

I appreciate your "Management Advice", and I will say that I have already exhausted that approach. I am not the person who has the authority to repromand and/or terminate employees. I have approached fellow employees about their lack of respect for the workplace and their individual work ethic. I have already brought it to the attention of the people who are able to make those decisions, but it is clearly not high on their list of priorities.

However, we are in a retail situation and I have real issues with the fact that the computers visible to incoming clients have become infected with several different forms of spyware/malware as well as some ugly viruses and hijackers. It is getting to be a nice chunk of my time to correct these issues as they arise. If these issues are not tended to, often times inappropriate material may appear on units that are in our lobby area.

For those of us who are doing the bulk of the work and actually have a work ethic, it is obviously quite irritating. Perhaps I will suggest that if the owners do not wish to address the real issue, personnel, that they invest in a more advanced system.

Thanks Tony for your information. As for you "Mike", I was not looking for management advice, but I suppose your 2 cents worth was at least worth that.