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[Ron Williams]

my school uses surf control to prevent students to accessing certain websites. This is very frustrating because the school is not able to unlock websites. The reason is the people who pay for the fiber optic, controls the internet. Previously they used novell which I was able to bypass, but I have not been able to bypass surf control.

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[Don_HH2K]

Let me start off by saying that this is quite unethical. I know you might want to be able to use the Internet to whatever potential you want at school, but I do know that at my school, I was forced to sign a contract when I applied that said I will not use the computers and Internet connection for any purpose that isn't allowed by the firewall, content blocker, or system settings. What you could do, of course, is what I did: help the principal with all his/her computer problems, and eventually he or she will give you the admin password to all of the PCs on the network when you need it to do admin work. Voila, instant access a la Geek.

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[Ron Williams]

Sadly I have tried this. I have the admin password which unlocks all computers, but all of the internet is locked. Due to the internet being paid for by outside money instead of by the state, the people paying for it have the control to unlock certain websites. So this is why I want to bypass the internet filter. Now since the internet uses a proxy server to filter the internet and locks all internet connections other than through the proxy, I need to find a site that has a browser in a browser (if that makes sense). The main reason to bypass the filter is to play othello (reversi). So although you may find it inethical I want to play and with most game sites locked its annoying.

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[Don_HH2K]

Sadly I have tried this. I have the admin password which unlocks all computers, but all of the internet is locked. Due to the internet being paid for by outside money instead of by the state, the people paying for it have the control to unlock certain websites. So this is why I want to bypass the internet filter. Now since the internet uses a proxy server to filter the internet and locks all internet connections other than through the proxy, I need to find a site that has a browser in a browser (if that makes sense). The main reason to bypass the filter is to play othello (reversi). So although you may find it inethical I want to play and with most game sites locked its annoying.

OK, I see what you mean. You could always try Anonymizer Private Surfing at http://www.anonymizer.com and downloading what you want with that, which is an online free proxy server. Better yet, you could sneak in Firefox on a CD, and set it up to use a proxy server that would tunnel through your school's proxy server. Trust me, there are a few good ones out there that are free.

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[Mandrake]

What sort of systems administrator would even think about giving out the administrator password for an entire network? This guy must be one incompetent administrator.

FWIW, a correctly configured Novell BorderManager solution cannot be bypassed easily.

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[Ron Williams]

What sort of systems administrator would even think about giving out the administrator password for an entire network? This guy must be one incompetent administrator.

FWIW, a correctly configured Novell BorderManager solution cannot be bypassed easily.

Its funny that you say that but I am not the one who sets up the user accounts, and if he wants to give the principal the username and password to the entire network so be it. But if it happens to be in my hands because the principal trusts me thats the schools problem.



I think I found the solution, though I will have to test it from school. I could install Firefox remotely to the network computer, then access it via any workstion and any account. (at least until they figure it out. Then I could install some other browser and keep doing that 'till they finally catch on.

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[Don_HH2K]

I think I found the solution, though I will have to test it from school. I could install Firefox remotely to the network computer, then access it via any workstion and any account. (at least until they figure it out. Then I could install some other browser and keep doing that 'till they finally catch on.

Firefox isn't good for a situation like this. I would actually reccomend a distribution of the Gecko engine called Ghostzilla, which is much better at hiding your tracks. You can just burn the installed program to a CD, and run it from there. Ghostzilla does not use disk caching and does not have profile support, so nothing will be left on the drive after taking your CD. And if they inquire as to why you didn't just save your work to a floppy instead? "My Mac doesn't have a floppy drive". Trust me, that works, I don't even have a Mac, and it's worked before.

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[Ron Williams]

That sounds like it would work. U know how smart those computer apps 2 teachers are. They may have graduated from MIT (just joking), my teacher reads the book and does not care about anything else.

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[cyberfart]

Hey, ghostzilla doesn't work. It's a neat little program and all, but surfcontrol still owns it. Does anyone else know of a way to bypass surf control?

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[DJGM]

Would the powers that be at your school allow the use of USB pen drives on the school computers?

If so, Portable Firefox, with the IE theme, and a proxy, may be worth a try . . .

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[Antony]

Why do people want to access to websites that are blocked?

Most schools/colleges/universities or even public libraries have internet usage policies... In most academic institutes, internet access is designed for "academic related" or research purposes.

If you believe you need to access some certain websites for a good reason, contact your supervisor to get the permission.

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[cyberfart]

See here's the thing... Besides the fact the so many games websites are blocked, there are alot of random pages that have nothing to do with bad things but may have games or something in the title, and no my school computers don't accept usb drives.

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[jch123]

My school uses surf control to. But we have our own laptops s our account isn't on the network its actually on our own computers. Im on a mac and my stupid school blocks blizzard addicting games and all sites that i want to go to i can't how do i get passt it knowing that i can't understand that much techno babble.

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[one tooth]

uhh there is a way to get by surf control and its not that hard and were every you go is untracable. there is a thing called G pass and you upload it into a flash make it a sipped file and open it at school when needed it opens its own browser via g pass and you can go where ever on any comp

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