[TUT] Un-filtering your school internet (IFL BLOCK FILTER)

[Calon]

1 -> Point IE to the internet options;
2 -> Connections;
3 -> Proxy.. change too "unfiltered.ifl.net"

You can only do this on teachers computers, or computers which aren't dedicated for "students"

[Stephen!]

Or how about you obey the rules and not jeopardize your education?

[Decode]

Your school techies are thick. In our school you can't access internet options. :(

[Kevin]

Or how about you obey the rules and not jeopardize your education?


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[L?KE]

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[Decode]

Or how about you obey the rules and not jeopardize your education?

lol???

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[L?KE]

Yeah I lol'ed at that too. :rolleyes: god forbid anybody goes on myspace..

[PaintYourTarget]

Your school techies are thick. In our school you can't access internet options. :(
Same. They've also disabled right clicking, which is annoying.
But on the Macs they've disabled Safari and making us use Firefox which is always a boost.

[Digital]

I done this in like year 9 but they clicked on :|

[edgates]

We can go on internet options, but can't change anything. We just get disabled fields and 'Some properties on this sheet are maintained by your system administrator.' So yeah. I think people just connect an ethernet cable to their laptop, and because the proxy settings aren't set up, they just get unfiltered access.

[Tomm]

Even if you can change the proxy options (Portable Firefox..) any good network should have a edge firewall that would be configured to block any HTTP/HTTPS connections that are not from the proxy server. This is the case at my school and on my home network (ISA Server). At home it allows me to monitor what other members of my family are doing as well improve speed (Caching) and security ;)

[Flisker]

We have Web sense anyway and it just blocks anything and everything... it even blocks sites classed as "Uncategorised". So I doubt it will work. they even block .exe files which aren't in the safe programs list on the teachers RM Tutor 3 (Yes that crap program lol).

[ItsMeh]

Your school techies are thick. In our school you can't access internet options. :(
same in our school too

[Wayne]

Same in college, admins and that are monitoring every PC.

[Calon]

We can't either.. read "You can only do this on teachers computers, or computers which aren't dedicated for "students""

@Tomm:
It's how the teachers unfilter their internet.

[Wayne]

Who would dare go up to a teachers' PC and try unfiltering it and accessing a filtered site anyway? Way too risky imo.

[Calon]

Who would dare go up to a teachers' PC and try unfiltering it and accessing a filtered site anyway? Way too risky imo.
When the teacher is out of the room, when a room is empty, when you need something which may be filtered.

[Wayne]

Hmm, yeah it's risky. If you're on a filtered site and the teacher just strolls in you're screwed.

[Recursion]

Haha.. very funny :rolleyes:

You'd have to be an idiot not to enable group policies.

And actually around here, we don't use that system anyway, we use different IPs for each filter, i.e. x.x.x.1 is Primary, x.x.x.2 is Middle x.x.x.3 is Upper, x.x.x.4 is Staff and x.x.x.5 is unfiltered, which are assigned to groups on the Server and so you have to have server access :P

[Tomm]

If they use a solution like I suggested above then removing the proxy will only make them lose access to the internet all together. In ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration Server) you can configure certain firewall rules to apply to certain Active Directory users or groups. So it does not matter what computer you are logged onto as long as you are on a staff account you can have unfiltered or less restrictive filtering in place.

For example here is how I make you that you have to be a authenticated user (e.g logged into the domain) before you can access the internet using ISA:

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/5562e9c611fe572ISAHTTP.PNG

You can take the same principle and apply it to students, staff, etc.

We can't either.. read "You can only do this on teachers computers, or computers which aren't dedicated for "students""

@Tomm:
It's how the teachers unfilter their internet.

[Recursion]

We use ISA server setup in the way Tomm has explained.

[mat64]

Hm, at my old school they used some sort of proxy server I guess. You could get around it by using web proxies but I never really liked that anyway, plus they did use group policy, so that would stop you from working around this way. The only thing you could do really was put up with it which is a good thing anyway because in reality it's for your own good. I know many people who just sat there on games in IT and ended up with crap grades and are now on a crap course in college they didn't want to do. The only thing about school was that nothing was really monitored outside what a teacher saw on your screen whilst standing behind you.

College have a completely different system, nothing is blocked and you are free to browse whatever you want. However everything you do is monitored by the server and stored in a excel file on the web server, so if you went onto Habbox Forum for example it logs all the images, scripts etc you load. This might not sound bad but the technicians here are pretty sharp and if you are caught doing something you shouldn't be you risk getting kicked out of college if it's bad enough.

For example, there's a guy on our course who sat and played games during out session and when they picked up on it they handed him a 5 page log of all his entries for Teagames.com, which was every image, script, embedded item etc he had loaded in say the last 72 hours. That resulted our entire group in losing our privileges of been able to sit in the room during our breaks and play Counter-Strike for example which was pretty annoying tbh.

Thing is with College you don't have to be there and therefore the punishment for misusing the systems is much greater than what you could get at school imo, because you chose to be there; whereas school is mandatory.

Might have gone off the entire point there but, yeh.. ;)

[lolwut]

Or if your school has Websence, any form of web proxy server works fine.

[Gnome]

We have Web sense anyway and it just blocks anything and everything... it even blocks sites classed as "Uncategorised". So I doubt it will work. they even block .exe files which aren't in the safe programs list on the teachers RM Tutor 3 (Yes that crap program lol).

when u type in the url, if it comes up uncatgeroised, put a " ? " at the end of the whole url and it will work, this only works for uncategorised :)

[ideabox]

I typed in prince Albert for my English Lit pp and porn came up then. x)

[Gnome]

yeah, prince albert would be reffering to the genital piercing of a male. (: