Hi, I am a 15 year old high school student. A few times in my day I have classes in which I can work on computers. The problem is that I finish my work much quicker than the rest of the class. What I want is to be able to go wherever on the internet, possibly even play games. Here's the situation: Every student is assigned a login/pass. with this pass they have a drive on the office server, the H: drive. They have Websense Enterprise censoring sites and parts of sites like peacefire.org. I'm not sure what it is but they're also running something to keep all the students from getting to a dos prompt, control panel, and the C: drive on any computer. They also monitor every student's H: drive to check up on what sites they've been to, if there are any games or whatnot on the drive etc. Now, I know how to get past them knowing where I go, but some things I need to know are: How do I get around Websense? Can I spoof the space it shows on their end so they wont know if I download games? Is there any way to get the windows security system off? If anyone can answer any of these questions for me, it would be of great assistance. Thanks, Joe

Security is there for a reason, probably put in place with people like you in mind. I'm not saying that's a good or bad thing, just stating the obvious from the administration's point of view. Websense is a proxy server, meaning that your internet browsers are pointing toward it and letting it do all the browsing work for you, and it comes back to your browser with what it found, or if you tried browsing to a site on the restricted list it will give you a message telling you so. If you have the ability, you could change your browser settings so you don't use a proxy server, although the firewall is probably configured so that only the proxy server can leave the site using HTTP port 80. So . . . You're probably screwed, which as a system administrator is just how I would want it.

From one Admin. to another I applaud you Jaxor. I was so hoping that no one on here would help anyone circumvent security on a Network. Generally security is to keep the bad guys out, not screw with the end users. I work in an educational environment (K-12). I hate to say it but I look at it that I have 35,000 potential crackers in our system. And they have a leg up on someone from the outside trying to get in, they are already inside the system. Later! Underdog V-Peace-V

Joe... Congratulations on completing your assigned work before everyone else. You must be genius material! However, what you have planned to do with the time you have left reflects an immature attitude to your own education. You should ask for more challenging work, or work out some of your own, to really nail the topic. You could always take in a book to read. All the facilities you have been provided are to achieve the educational aims of your course, not to entertain you. You can't go "wherever on the Internet" to play games because this class time is not leisure time. Congratulations on your school for insisting on a system that cannot be easily made a fool of. IT Manager

No prob. I actually used to be a Netware Admin on Wall Street, and there are plenty of legal assistants/interns/bored traders to deal with when it comes to security. I also went to a college with a NetWare environment and showed enough interest that the head netware guy there took me under his wing and showed me all about running NetWare in an educational environment. Joe, instead of figuring out how to bypass things and play games, why not ask the professor or whoever is there if you can install a programming language - you'll not only learn something usefull, but if you REALLY must hack, it will help with your eventual skills. -Jax

Joe, You probably don't want to hear this, I know I didn't want to @ your age, but take the advice Jax gave you and run with it. You'll definitely be the wiser for doing so. That is if you have not gone to far into the "Dark Side" :). There's nothing wrong with Hacking. Just try to resist the urge for Cracking. V-Peace-V Underdog

Hmm, im 17, studying 3 alevels. I have spent the past 7 years at school trying to get around this problem. I have so much free time, i thrased (90%) the AS of one of my a leves so hard that i finish in Januray, and half my week will be spent in free periods. So although this kind of thing is banned at my school, I really want access to things like Messenger, and sites like ign just to read about up coming games. Its not like this is hurting my work, and i understand perfectly why the admins dont want me messing about, in their shoes, i would do the same. But, with so much free time, it gets VERY boring. I hardly get any homework, and I have it all done in 10 minutes anyway. I spend a lot of school time on computers trying to do non-educational stuff, and I still got AAB for my AS subjects. Sometimes giving us older students a little space may be beneficial.. never know, may be motivating. But as far as i know, websense is unpassable. Shame cos i want to download music on our fast school interent (150-ish kbytes / sec) to take home on CD (our pc's have cdrw's), but the firewall and websense prevent me. Life has these annoying problems, just gotta accept it, no games for you sonny :)