URL Filter

bugzpodder · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2004 7:53 am

they filtered out hotmail and yahoo! mail using URL filter at our school... from the look of it, the block any url that has keyword "mail" any bypasses?

octopi · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2004 10:18 am

You'll probally need to use a proxy of sorts. Either web based, or as a setting you change in internet explorer.

Ultimus · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2004 11:13 am

Hah! Get this... in my school, they blocked off all acess to the hard/cd drives/most commonly (ab)used sites... but they didn't take into account that the virus scanning software still had acess to those things!

All you gotta do now is open any Norton Antivirus common file dialog (and it makes it even easier that it's integrated into IE), and once you're there all you gotta do is type the path/url or what you're looking for and BAM!

Simple as that.

Catalyst · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2004 1:55 pm

same thing happened at my school

http://proxify.com

Mazer · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2004 2:32 pm

bugzpodder wrote:

they filtered out hotmail and yahoo! mail using URL filter at our school... from the look of it, the block any url that has keyword "mail" any bypasses?

That's not even the worst part. We can't get to sites like GameTutorials.com! They're actually restricting my learning!

SilverSprite · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2004 3:59 pm

these pieces of shit.. they wont even let the teachers access the websites.. how am i supposed to do work at school now with the defective computer i have at home..

Mazer · **Posted:** Mon May 17, 2004 4:12 pm

Remember: If you happen to find out who was responsible for that (email), sign the jerk up at every porn site you know about.

bugzpodder · **Posted:** Tue May 18, 2004 7:28 am

10 bits says its mr. ferrara

McKenzie · **Posted:** Tue May 18, 2004 7:42 am

I've e-mailed Soucie already and complained. He says that it was his boss (I forget his name.) I am hoping to get certain sites unbanned. Most filters allow you to list sites that you want to override the rules. As for getting stuff back and forth attach them at compsci or if you can scrounge up $50 you can pick up a 128Meg. memory stick (Bestbuy has a few in that range)

Andy · **Posted:** Thu May 20, 2004 7:48 pm

or we can black mail... for free... lol if you need to send files, just ask me to use my ftp

naoki · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2004 1:16 pm

Well I was reading the official memo sent out by the tech heads over at GECDSB, and they stated that they've blocked off any sites which include : Advertisement, Porn, Games, Web-Based E-mail, Downloads, Hacking, Illegal Activities. Although like Bugz said, it only seems to be blocking sites with the title in their URL, or located somewhere on the front page. Japanese sites and Misc. sites seem fine

They specifically stated that they've blocked off Hotmail, due to the amount of evidence they found that people use Hotmail at school to send death threats and viruses.
What's worse is their solution: Use some shit called gaggle.net. The site itself calls it a "teacher supervised" e-mailing system, which means your rights are thrown out when you sign up for it.

From the tone of the memo, they tech heads will be keeping these blocks as a permanent solution to the crap that's been going on in the networks.

In the meantime, like the comp sci teacher's have stated, you can still upload and download by using the Briefcase feature in Yahoo. Also, [url]guardster.com[/url] is another good web proxy (though still no logging into e-mail accounts).[/url]

Paul · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2004 1:22 pm

only the name? so if you just put the ip of the site, could u get in? And wasn't hotmail always blocked? it always was for me lol.

Dan · **Posted:** Sat May 22, 2004 11:43 pm

LOL, u think that messes with your rights just take a look in to lanschool if your school uses that. It see everything you do on the comp and can even send SS or let teachers wtach your screen from any where on the network. Alought it is horbly unscuery so realy any one can see what you are doing not just the staff and mess with what u are doing as well.

naoki · **Posted:** Sun May 23, 2004 11:00 am

Yeah our school has LANschool installed. But isn't there some kind of restriction on when a teacher can view your work? I mean, I don't think my accounting teacher should be able to view my work when I'm logged in for my comp sci class right?

In most cases the teacher's aren't big enough jerks to check up on us, prolly only when we're playing games when we shouldn't be.

Amailer · **Posted:** Sun May 23, 2004 11:22 am

Iv got this.. school vista (same as lan school? idk) but it does the same damm thing, and it sucks Sad

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Iv been trying for the past month to get onto normal windows on the comp in my class...up to know Iv just installed some games and etc. Also I got a problem, I installed MSN one day, it worked perfectly.. but then like a week after that It couldn't connect to the internet anymore, WHY! I think someone blocked it -.-; how can I possially unblock it?

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