HOWTO: Get around school parental blocks?


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I never had that prob, i was a admin at my high school. i worked with the IT Guy on campus, i got paid to goto school for 2 yrs, needless to say it was $5 /hr and the best part was, i got called out of class to fix things hehehehehe it was fun, and teacher parking. I was the first they did that with, then i graduated and they did it again and a again.

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our school has some symantec thin, and for some reason we can get on porn sites etc in the IT Block, but not in the library. But i manage to get round it, cheers for that link to Guardster, WILL USE THAT :)

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so does mine.

what i do is upload it at home, and change the extension to something else, download it at school and change back to what ever, only prob is i cant use the installers as i need admin rights

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i just ping the site and get the IP, 9/10 times it works and plus, schools usually never block out the IP, least not our school

EDIT: BTW, our school has a novell client trust thing that doesn't let u use the internet unless ur logged on, how can i get by that?

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i just ping the site and get the IP, 9/10 times it works and plus, schools usually never block out the IP, least not our school

EDIT: BTW, our school has a novell client trust thing that doesn't let u use the internet unless ur logged on, how can i get by that?

Huh?

What's that :| :s

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we have novell and even though when you click cancel it gives you an error I can bypass that easily and novell doesn't block surfing :)

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"uncommon religion," next theyll block stuff for "has information".

at out school they have vnc clients installed on all the computers and deepfreeze too.

they used to have windows me on the computers (which would hide the vnc systray icon) but they decided to "upgrade" to win98 (much better). one side note, all the video cards are set to 16 bit so when working in illustrator you get ugly gradients.

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I used to get around the blocks by using remote desktop to access my computer at home (via the active x control) and then browsing the internet through the RD connection.

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"uncommon religion," next theyll block stuff for "has information".

at out school they have vnc clients installed on all the computers and deepfreeze too.

they used to have windows me on the computers (which would hide the vnc systray icon) but they decided to "upgrade" to win98 (much better). one side note, all the video cards are set to 16 bit so when working in illustrator you get ugly gradients.

as do ours you can still turn it off tho

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couple of things...

how would i get into hotmail, at our school the internet control panel is locked, registry is locked... the only way i think i could change the proxies would be to create a *.reg file? and translate dosent work for hotmail... :s

other thing is our email accounts lock us out of sending pictures, exe, batch files, zip, rar basically anything that dosent have something to do with ms office... which is really gay as i use photoshop for my graphic design and thus have to bring cdrs to school to get work home... any ideas?

Freakz

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We have the same thing at our school (Websense). Quite annoying, but I can still go to Neowin at school. Its so funny because they try to scare everyone by saying we're all being monitored while using the computers, but theres absolutely no way you can have that many computers (hundreds and hundreds) all being watched at the same time.

Don't you sign off and on your PC? Or sign in on a piece of paper to use it? If you do, Websense keeps a log on who went out (either by PC, or login name) and where they went. They can pull those at any time. I even believe they can find out who is using the most, and take a look a little deeper.

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couple of things...

how would i get into hotmail, at our school the internet control panel is locked, registry is locked... the only way i think i could change the proxies would be to create a *.reg file? and translate dosent work for hotmail... :s

other thing is our email accounts lock us out of sending pictures, exe, batch files, zip, rar basically anything that dosent have something to do with ms office... which is really gay as i use photoshop for my graphic design and thus have to bring cdrs to school to get work home... any ideas?

Freakz

Actually, you might be able to get around it. Bring up the help window for Internet Explorer; it should use .chm files which open in HTML help. You should be able to change internet options there (options->internet options), I was always able to even with the Internet CPL blocked.

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We had n00b admins at our school the first half of the year.. left the internet control panel unlocked for everyone to fiddle with.. could get to anything. Now they have either changed admins or turned smart.

There are signs at every computer saying: "Computers are for research only - No e-mail or games." But what do they do to enforce it? Nothing :D

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