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

[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

[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:



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.