Ever messed with the School Computers?

[mezoko]

Can't do anything or I'll get fired. I work closely with the IT person of my school (~900 kids so just one, he is cool and not one of those dumb IT people.).

--Got around proxy, IT person didn't care (even asked me for access)

--Got admin password (was given by the IT person (could have easily gotten it from the sam file though)

--Rat on kids who are causing troubles for IT (roms, proxy sites, and such (Everyone already hates me so I don't care anymore))

[Fergie]

Thank you mcloum, will have to try that tomorrow. :p

[br_]

in 3rd grade i was banned from the computers for a year for removing all security and making them go to the windows login at boot rather than the netware one.

[Julius Caro]

Before my High school upgraded to Win98 (this is a few years back) we could hit CTRL+ALT+DEL at the login screen and run local things.

Then I got into college. My school had computers with card readers for printing, you print on the computer you were on and then go to this desktop and select which computer you were on and that was how you paid for printouts. Using a little Windows know how and our laptops we got the IP for the printers and bypassed the print workstation, which means free printing.

It was their own fault for A) having the ports on each computer setup for the printer alone and B) using network printers.

We also have that on our college too. There's just one of those card printers I think, maybe two. But we have regular desktop laser printers in every lab. Just that when it runs out of toner, it could be ages until someone reports it :p

[Quactaur]

A network i was using once used active directory in such a way that it cached login files onto the local machine. You could log onto your account (with restrictions), then log off.

You'd then physically pull out the network plug and try and login onto the domain. Instead of failing it'd use the cache (i'm assuming it's a cache) and you'd end up on the local machine with full access rights. Then you could just plug back into the network and have full access. Lax security is great :)

[addc182]

we play 8v8 games of counterstike on our school PCs every week :)

i have flashfxp installed on my domain so i can download the programs from the network the school has paid for for personal use, although there aren't many programs i want for personal use.

they hid the command prompt but i can access it using an ms access form

unfortunately the IT techs are not stupid, they regularly block the proxys we use to get around the block system

[hotdog666al]

Apparently some dudes got access to the Teacher console before and locked loads of people's screens and played god. Shame I missed it.

Nowadays, best we get is executing Minesweeper and Solitaire from CMD and starting the now-restricted EXE files from within ZIP Files. (They dont work otherwise).

LAME LAME LAME. Sodding RM CC3 :@

[Shof]

Yes, Then again, i repair school computers

[WooSH]

First and Foremost. Our Highschool is Around ~600 Students in NJ Area which is really really small. And this is a county school with lots of federal funding and a very professional IT Staff.

FirstYear: scared as hell. Teachers use MasterEyeVision. Very Powerful Program to view your screens and take control over it. Web filtered with Websense. Pain in the arse. No Proxies at all. If you get access to one, it gets blocked with in days. Guarenteed. Plus with Vision theres not point. Network Ports Blocked with Firewall. No MSN, no AIM, no Yahoo Pool. lol

edit: oh yeah. in freshman year we launched games like Gunz (similar to CS) from our flash drives and played them in the CAD lab since the teacher there was cool. he used vision to take over our pcs and play under our accounts to lower our ranks. this game meant a lot back then lol.

SecondYear: (current)

1) Vision: VBScript that prevents Vision from starting up during boot up

2) CMD blocked. Notepad Blocked. Workaround:

Go to any site.

Go to File>View Source. Tada Notepad is there!

erase all text. enter command.com

save as 'batch.bat' . launch enjoy.

3) Proxy: working on it.

4) Machine Access: Linux Knopix Live CD :)

5) My fav. currently in progress.

Flash Application that launches in 1024x768 resolution.

Displays WindowsXP login screen. Users Login. Error Message: Domain *** is not available.

Flash Logs the username and password onto log.php located on my host.

I login under my name and launch this app througout the network. go home and watch dozens of passwords in one convientent easy to access list

many many more.

safemode, and all other settings are disabled and have been in a pain.

many of my friends have been fried for stupidity and lack of knowledge (shouldnt have told them in the first place). this is a tech school with emphisis on IT so basically everyone here knows a little know how. :)

ThirdYear/FourthYear: not there yet. but off to a good start.

edit2: whats this sam file to get the password you guys are talking about?

Edited November 14, 2006 by statix1

[*John*]

My teacher told me once everything is 100% secure and nobody will ever be able to hack anything. I asked her if I could test the security. In about 2 hours all computers had full access to everything.

I hate when teachers claim everything is 100% secure and act like they would know everything.

A little off the point, by my 6th form teacher did the same thing about a newly installed coffee machine. "Its 100% secure, you cant get free one's"

Mmmmm free coffee each morning! We sure showed him! :rofl:

[pyehac]

You want messed up? While we were installing operating systems in vmware, a classmate of mine (a complete computer noob) restarted the entire computer system and managed to reformat the hard drive and install DOS on it. We teased him even after graduation.

Another classmate (different class, an even worse noob) managed to send everyone in the school (even the admins and teachers) an email that was required for a class assignment. What's even funnier was that some idiots responded and caused more ciaos. Eventually, the IT people found out it was my friend and revoked his computer privileges for a few months.

[webeagle12]

not only I like to mess up school computers I actually broke security and download bunch of files and install them. that was fun :laugh:

all thanks to the old Norton Antivirus :blush:

send security .exe file (or any other) to quarantine, delete it, tada I'm free :D

Edited November 15, 2006 by webeagle12

[RGSPro]

I used to hack the system admin password on the XP installations so I could get root access and reshack the explorer and add inappropriate images :)

[da13ro]

I smell some BS in some of these stories, but some are classics haha and i love the view source and save as batch technique!

Our school hires professional sys admins to look after the security of the networks, they once left the FileMaker 5 Database of every teacher and every students in an accessable folder (not easy to find, fairly deep) on the network.. dragged it to my desktop and emailed it home. Told them that very day, they said pffft its protected by password there is nothing you can do with it...(filemaker password system) what they didnt understand is that a) there are programs that find it out, and b) you can simply open it in notepad, and view all the usernames and passwords, because the FP5 does not encrypt the file, mearly just place a password prompt at the start of it.

Ok so i told them there password and they swore a few times, then said they will fix it. So they let me know that they have fixed it....within 2 minutes i have a new copy back on my desktop...(they moved it from server 2 to server 3 lmao. Well they keep it accessable so teachers can open the file if kids forget there password. IT staff no the FP5 password. Anyway it is now fixed, but i do have the db at home still :)

[Japlabot]

Installed a RIS server and deployed my own Workstations and Servers

Ran better than theirs

[ozgeek]

Back in High School, I am not sure how i did this but I had full access to my friend's user account. I simply open "my computer" folder (this was on Windows NT 4.01 back in 1996-1997) and then i could see his home drive as one of my drives. Yep, I could even access everything in there. He knew about it and nearly told the school tech about it but he decided he'd trust me. I didn't leak whatever he had in there. Friends don't betray friends..right? That's why.

During this, we wrote a simple batch code into the command prompt that looped what we want to say to line to line, scrolling the screen. I am not sure what this batch line code was, because it's been 10 years since I did that, but if you could tell, me what it was I would be grateful to try it on my computer here.

I stole a hard drive found lying around near the computer I was using. I supposed the tech was looking for it but no one suspected me even though one of the classmates talked to me about what it was (yes I know, you clown, it's a hard drive).

At TAFE a couple years ago, one afternoon I was browsing the net in the library when I accidently sent some messages and the whole campus got the messages! They let me off with a friendly warning.

Edited November 15, 2006 by ozgeek

[Julius Caro]

All computers in my college have some "cyber cafe" like thing, I guess. The main partitions (the ones that have the OS) are restored everytime the computer is booted. So it's not like you can change anything.

The only way you can access computers is with your personal username and password, so if something happens you get busted. All optical units are disabled.

Never tried to install anything, I guess you can if the installation doesnt require admin rights, but it's gonna last that session anyway.

And they are like: fine, computers might not be 100% secure, we know that. But if you try to mess with them, we will find you, and you'll get expelled.

[mr.pingu]

But the network at my school is very insecure, and most network drives are accessable through Word and Notepad.

At one point you could get into Program Files with all the register and grade software just by going up a few levels from Sample Music.

You could do the same at our school but me being a good boy didn't exploit it.

Stuck to playing with net send and a few of us used to play duke nukem 3d over the network. I also got hold of the admin password in year 11 based on the fact the librarian loved me and just gave it to me without thinking. Used it a couple of times to log in but never did anything i shouldnt :p

[Panacik]

Got the admin's password; I have total LOCAL access to the current computer Im on.

netsend thing - been there done that

installed games

They use a software called "NetOp" that allows the teacher's PC to control/block our PC or show us code that on his screen on all our screens. What I did so he couldnt see nothing I was doing: Rebooted, F8, Safe Mode, login as admin, went into Program Files, Shift+Delete on the folder containing the software, restart, login with my normal username, and tada! They cant see, trace, block, or anything to my PC anymore.

Im currently looking how to get the admin's NETWORK password. I actually don't want it for harm just want to reconfigure some stuff (Example: They have Paint blocked and I want to unblock it. Sometimes we have to make diagrams and its hard using Word's drawing feature)

And you dont think they will notice the software is not working on that machine at some point? maybe even when you are working on the machine?

Yes i did all sorts with the school PC's and was never stupid enough to get caught.

[Xerxes]

I haven't really done anything like that, but one of my mates was always figuring out ways to get around the security settings or making a hard time for other students...I remember one time in High School (back in the days of Win 3.1) he made a desktop screenshot (with all the icons etc) the wallpaper and then hide the login window (was easy todo in Win 3.1) so people would go to it and think it's logged in..but then get frustrated the icons don't work :p oh those were the days :rofl:

One thing that was rather funny, was one time in TAFE one of the guys was looking at porn on his PC, the IT support guy caught him doing it through the window, so he went into his office. He then remote logged into that PC and took control of the mouse and was trying to shut it down, the guy was fighting (with the mouse) to stop it, constantly pressing ESC to close the close windows dialog, before the support guy clicked Ok etc..the guy won in the end as he pulled the network cable..still it was funny as hell (well I thought so)

Edited November 15, 2006 by Xerxes

[Malisk]

Hehe, we played Doom 1 and Warcraft 1 on them... Those were the days. :D

We also managed to hide the files in the file system through some file system hacking (I believe we marked them as deleted). Made them invisible to tools they used to search for them and of course made the file system able to overwrite them, but on these computers they didn't write much data to the hard drives so things stayed intact enough during the days. :)

We were found out now and then and our class gained a bad reputation. :p

Edit: Aah, and did "net send" too... :) To pop up dialog boxes on random computers saying it's virus infected and things like that. :p The funniest thing was when we once did that and another guy from our class got the blame, hehe... (we sent it from his computer when he was away for a moment ;))

Edited November 15, 2006 by Jugalator

[Pc_Madness]

Ahh, messing with school computers...

I remember we found a folder on one of the servers that wasn't write protected... bam.. uploaded all of the games and some people even uploaded movies to it (which I freaked at.. atleast a half competent IT guy will notice a few gb missing :p)... as well as making some chat systems and the occassional password stealer... and re-adding windows games and that kinda stuff. :)

I remember we had abit of a netsend/winpopup phase... and someone discovered the send to the domain command (since netsend wasn't running on any other comps, this wasn't a problem), but then in Form Meeting, my teacher is the librarian, and the IT guy works in the Library, and shes all "yeah.. these messages were popping up on the server, and they've got your name all over it". Opps. Claimed someone had gotten my password and ran for the hills. :)

At Uni.. its mainly been managing our collection of games on the computers, and finding folders with all the previous assignments for some subjects.. :)

[Guest]

I recently learnt that using IE favourites, you can get to any folder location you want. Even if you can't get there using explorer. The read/write permissions are properly set though :p

[Malisk]

I don't, because:

1) I don't have the time

2) There is no point

3) If I get caught, I'll get suspended/expelled, and I REALLY don't want that to happen

4) The network has already been proven to be secure by IT pros.

Chicken! :laugh:

[inStereo]

never really did that much with them

when i was in college in programming we used to net send some of the unsuspecting students, they hadn't got a clue what was happening. one or two times we used some of the network drives to store linux installs.

And once i remeber we ran a remote desktop connection to the lecturers pc, he went out to the toilet so we set it up while he was gone. it was very funny when we started playing trying to do his presentation, lets just say it was very interesting. bums!!

ah the good old days.

Edited November 15, 2006 by inStereo