AlienForce1 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 A friend of mine asked me to block access on two of her`s company computers - the employers are always on Facebook , messenger and on gaming sites and forget to supply the orders . So , how do you think it would be simplier and safer to block acces : - to a few sites (Facebook and gaming sites)- to some applications (messenger , games)PS : note that one of the comp. is not very good - it`s a DELL GX280 in SFF case ( XP-SP2, proc.P4 , 512MB) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Type of protection suite in place... programs listed?.. One of several ways is edit the HOSTS file on each system...Use Parental Controls and Programs designed for children... :P Schedule it for access during lunch.. LOLGather lists of needed sites or exterior access that is absolutely necessary and block all access except for those.. which would kill the programs as well.. Being that they are able to run these programs tells me that they have access to do installations and do not have LUA accounts.. Group Policy editing could take care of this as well as rules written for the Programs.. But this may require a Pro Edition of Windows..You can also password protect the main exe files used for these elements.. with another application...Depending on Network hardware you could also block access there but this would apply for the entire office environment.. This may be harder too as there are many ways to connect to Live and many sites which host games..I personally think blocking everything and only allowing access to specific sites would work better for everyone.. Other than that they will have to use their own hardware and connection to do so... May also think about removing the default games that come with installation of the OS as well....OR.. you could just fire them.. and not worry about it.. hire someone for a lower wage - count your blessings and move on.. Let them train themselves and cost themselves the money and problems... elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 OpenDNS Easy, free and simple, Why do it manualy when they provide the lists for you? :)In most cases opendns does provide faster load times on the internet, Ive had no problems using this.You can add 1 network on the free side. There is a VIP Payed side that allows you to add more networks.Web Content Filtering -> Custom -> Choose the categories you want to block. Academic Fraud Adult Themes Adware Alcohol Auctions Automotive Blogs Business Services Chat Classifieds Dating Drugs Ecommerce/Shopping Educational Institutions File storage Financial institutions Forums/Message boards Gambling Games German Youth Protection Government Hate/Discrimination Health Humor Instant messaging Jobs/Employment Lingerie/Bikini Movies Music News/Media Non-profits Nudity P2P/File sharing Parked Domains Photo sharing Podcasts Politics Pornography Portals Proxy/Anonymizer Radio Religious Research/Reference Search engines Sexuality Social networking Software/Technology Sports Tasteless Television Tobacco Travel Video sharing Visual search engines Weapons WebmailYou can either set the opendns servers straight from the router or configur the main computer running the server.The OpenDNS nameservers are 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grouchysmurf Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 If you are just talking about 2 individual systems, then create a restricted user account, and remove all admin privileges.What type of access is needed to perform the job? With admin rights, i.e. can be restricted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artal73 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 You must try "Salfeld Child Control 2011". It's a complex solution of user managament.Site: http://www.salfeld.com/Share code: download/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienForce1 Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 You must try "Salfeld Child Control 2011". It's a complex solution of user managament.Site: http://www.salfeld.com/Share code: download/index.html- this is a paid application - I need one free or with proper medicine :rolleyes: grouchysmurf : What type of access is needed to perform the job? With admin rights, i.e. can be restricted. - one of the comp. needs admin. acces for it`s programs to work well (it`s the reception - which is taking pre-orders and the other computers acces it`s client database) sonar : OpenDNS Easy, free and simple - yes - easy , free and simple - but blocks the whole network not only 2 comp. (there are 12 comp. in that office) HX1 : Type of protection suite in place... programs listed? - 1-st comp. has Avira Free + Windows Firewall - 2-nd comp. has nod32 (AV) + Windows Firewall , both with Win.XP-SP3 (or SP2 one of them ?!? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artal73 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 - this is a paid application - I need one free or with proper medicine :rolleyes: You have a message about medicine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienForce1 Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 artal73 :You have a message about medicine- the key is it lifetime , or 1 year ? - can you give me a link for build 11.255 (on their site Child Control 2011 is at version 11.260) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artal73 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 artal73 :You have a message about medicine- the key is it lifetime , or 1 year ? - can you give me a link for build 11.255 (on their site Child Control 2011 is at version 11.260)You have a new PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avmad Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Depends on how good they are with computers I suppose. I like K9 Web Protection but would only suggest it for real beginners as I think you can get around it by using a browser it doesn't support :rolleyes: edit. It says you can block browsers it doesn't support. :D http://www1.k9webprotection.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienForce1 Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 You have a new PM.You didn`t answer my question : when you put that key in the program for what period of time it registers the program ? (when you install without key you have a trial , if you put a key in program it becames registered - for what time ? )If you would read the posts also you would see that I did find also myself a keygen (maybe it`s the same - the version I find has 18kB ) for that program ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienForce1 Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 One of several ways is edit the HOSTS file on each system...Use Parental Controls and Programs designed for children... :P Schedule it for access during lunch.. LOLBeing that they are able to run these programs tells me that they have access to do installations and do not have LUA accounts.. Group Policy editing could take care of this as well as rules written for the Programs.. But this may require a Pro Edition of Windows..You can also password protect the main exe files used for these elements.. with another application...I personally think blocking everything and only allowing access to specific sites would work better for everyone.. Other than that they will have to use their own hardware and connection to do so... May also think about removing the default games that come with installation of the OS as well....You gave me some good ideas - but the problem is that there is only the admin account installed on every comp. - so the filters must be able to protect themselves .If things do not change after putting these filters it is possible that my friend will move to a more radical sollution :OR.. you could just fire them.. and not worry about it.. hire someone for a lower wage - count your blessings and move on.. Let them train themselves and cost themselves the money and problems... elsewhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 sonar : OpenDNS Easy, free and simple- yes - easy , free and simple - but blocks the whole network not only 2 comp. (there are 12 comp. in that office)It being a business I would block all. waste of time just blocking 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kojootti Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 A friend of mine asked me to block access on two of her`s company computers - the employers are always on Facebook , messenger and on gaming sites and forget to supply the orders . So , how do you think it would be simplier and safer to block acces : - to a few sites (Facebook and gaming sites)- to some applications (messenger , games)PS : note that one of the comp. is not very good - it`s a DELL GX280 in SFF case ( XP-SP2, proc.P4 , 512MB)If you want to LOCK DOWN the whole computer(s) outta use,you could check out my release on Coder's Corner: ID USB LOCK KEYbut make sure to check out the posts+comments of the other ID Security Suite/Fastlink 2 releases.Someone mentioned they'd be selling rogue software,while one says usb lock is good.I will investigate their firewall now,if it's calling home or doing some other suspicious behaviour..(If it does,I will post the code for everybody to see,so people can spread the word around..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienForce1 Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 It being a business I would block all. waste of time just blocking 2.The access to computers is password protected - so the drivers have acces only on two computers (other employees seem to do their job...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudboy Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 It being a business I would block all. waste of time just blocking 2.The access to computers is password protected - so the drivers have acces only on two computers (other employees seem to do their job...)If the other employees have no problems doing their job, then they should also have no problem with you using something that's system wide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 I agree.. not only that it would be rather unfair to create a rule or a change that only effects two people...ANOTHER POWERFUL option.. would be to alter the systems in use as a Kiosk..and minimize the systems down with an XP program I used to love called SecAgent it is a program you will have to look around for but it is a paid one... I used to LOVE this one... literally able to lock a system down.. with an Admin account and protect specific changes.. easy to use.. There are many options and you should consider reviewing the program yourself first... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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