I was at home using my web based remote access to my company email
(through Activcard) I stupidly left this open whilst I was browsing
through other sites for another job.  Is there anyway that my company
could know I was searching these sites by leaving the remote access
connection on at the same time?

Sorry to hear about that. ActivCard has changed its name to
ActivIdentity and yes, it can track the identity of its users
remotely. You may be interested in signing into one of the webinars on
ActivIdentity and its tracking ability at
www.actividentity.com/en/company/webinar/index.php

Hope this helps. lgcamp www.webspawner.com/users/editmasters

Thanks for the comment - However I was not connected to the Internet
through my company network (they only provide web based email
access)but through my own personal Internet account in a seperate
session and window albeit at the same time.  My question is that
whether Actiidentity could record what I was accessing through that
seperate login

Oh dear! What a nightmare situation!  The good news is you should be
absolutely fine!

Let me just check that I understand your situation correctly.

-You logged on to your company email system via a web browser using
Activecard/Activeidentity to authenticate yourself.
-You checked your emails, and then openned up a new browser windows
and did some surfing (for jobs)
-You then realised that you'd left the other window open and it was
still connected to the company email system - so you closed it down.

If that's the case then you are fine.  Activecard is just an
authentication mechanism, it simply verifies that you are who you say
you are before permitting you access to the company email.  Because
this is all that device does, you were still surfing the Internet on
your own computer/laptop and weren't passing any communication through
the company.  As you were going through your own channel to the
Internet and not passing any information through the company's network
you are absolutely fine, it is impossible for them to detect what else
you were doing on your computer at that time.

I'm more than willing to give you a more technical breakdown if it
would help, but to cut a long story short you have nothing to worry
about.  Now good luck with that new job!

Phew - thanks for that (the irony is I just got a raise!)