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Audit of my computer???? - lulubell

Posted: Nov 03, 2010

My transcription company suddenly wants to do an "audit" of my PC. Anyone know exactly what this means?

I'm not sure, but if it is your personal PC do not allow - me

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them access. If they want to know what version of a software or how much RAM, etc. I would provide that info, but that would be it.

If it is their computer, nothing you can do about it. If it - HT

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is yours--absolutely NO WAY. Doesn't matter what you may have or don't have on it, your computer is none of their business.

If medical records are imported (and they are), it is most - definitely their business.

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With new attention to security issues, this is just something many of us are going to have to address and deal with. BTW, their due diligence to compliance is also protection for us.

Fortunately for me, the last company I worked for wasn't interested in retrieving their old computer, so I already have one devoted to work and no personal privacy concerns. I also only work for one company on it, so they can come in look everything over at a moment's notice. If there were more than one company's programs on it? Hmmm,...I don't know just how to handle that. Inform and promise the second company I'd monitor the audit and keep them out of their programs? Just do it without notice?

In any case, if I had one personal/work computer and my employer wanted to check it out, I personally would be scrambling not for another job (where the same thing would be likely to happen eventually) but to clean everything up by transferring it to my laptop or disks so my work computer would be "presentable," i.e., present no problems to them or me. I imagine they could confirm no personal files would be accessed or copied, but I'd just prefer no mixing of personal/work for my own security reasons.

Pragmatist

you can run a report yourself and send it to them. I did that once. - sm

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The IT guys at a job I was taking asked for this, to make sure my computer could handle what they needed to download for the job and probably verify my virus programs. I went to the Belarc website. It's a free PC audit. Took minutes took only minutes and generated 2 page report of my computer specifics, memory, programs, speed, etc, all tecknical. IN NO WAY DID IT LIST OR SHOW THE PERSONAL DOCUMENTS, PICTURES, ETC. No one went into my computer and I was comfortable with what I saw on the audit to send it to them. Not sure if same situation as yours. But if you want to see a PC audit, google Belarc and try it, or they may have samples on their site.

I run a report once every 2 years or so for myself to print and have.

My company had me do that too. Run and e-mail. NM - Pragmatist

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