=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= = P.I.S.S. Philez Number 69 - - = = School Computer Security - - = = by Defenestrator - =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you ever took a computer class in high school, you'll know that the school's administration goes to great lengths to keep you from having your way with the computer/network. Although at my previous high school, having a Redhat box up as the server was just not working out for them due to the two people who knew how to use a unix derived system. Anyway, here's some tips for you windows kiddies stuck at school without total computer functionality. 1. If you have one of those bastard schools that monitors the web sites you visit, it's not ingrained into the OS. There's probably a little TSR running, and at my school it was called something like MS Web Monitor. If you have download privileges, get a low-level task manager (something that lets you see _everything_ running) and just kill it. If you want to get rid of it for good, run regedit and find where it starts. I used to know exactly where it is kept but in my mind the Windows registry is just a bunch of jumbled crap anyway. 2. No download privileges? Shame on them. The ultra-fun route command can show you what kind of gateways the internet connection goes through. The gateway shouldn't be too hard to find in the tables, as it is the one most like your own. If you're a total networking moron, it doesn't start with 127,0,or 255. Once you have that figured out, muck with the tables such that the connections are routed through a different computer which is known to exist (like the one the teacher has) or if you know the address of another valid gateway, use that. Now you should be able to at least reach what you want to. If you don't want to mess with the routing tables, there are options in Control Panel/Networking which let you specify what proxy server you want to use. Traceroute (tracert in windows, I believe) some site to see what happens to your packets. If it goes through more than one gateway before getting to a router, change the setting under the proxy server tab to the last gateway you get to. Now you just cut out unnecessary hops and saved some bandwidth, plus if the restrictions were on the first gateway they're not there anymore. 3. No hard drive privileges? It must suck ass to have to program like this. There may be an ultra-fun program called Full Armor which controls crap like this, along with getting into Control Panel and other functions. One way to get around this is to bullshit someone with the password into typing it in and either looking at it and memorizing it or installing a keylogger and running it. There are other ways around it, as the password is probably encrypted somewhere in the registry or in some system file, and there have already been plenty of texts written to disable this program alone. So I'm not going to waste my time doing it. 4. Screensaver tampered with? Got a password on it? Reboot the damn thing. It took 3 CompUSA and Microsoft techs to figure this out after a particularly adventurous trip to CompUSA before some movie. (Note to cUSA people: don't put your stores next to movie theaters where bored computer knowledgeable people hang out.) Then have your way with it, although try not to look like a moron by using kr4d sp33k or misspelling easy words (ez wordz). People hate that. Waste of intelligence. 5. Bored as shit? Tired of doing inane programs and/or worthless spreadsheets or word processing or some of that other bullshit? See how many operating systems you can install on it before anyone knows what's going on. The record's four. FreeBSD, Linux, Win95, SunOS. Ha. In conclusion, I'd like to say that just doing destructive things is a pointless waste of time. Really. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PISS - People into Serious Shit (for lack of a better name) Founder - Defenestrator Members - PhrostByte Author Parselon Rhodekyll Psycho Phreak Djdude Circular Reclusion AT2Screech Phantom Operator Skrike Kalony FreeRadical Comanche Contributors- Sameer Ketkar The Axess Phreak Devnull PISS, the author, and anyone else does not take responsibility for what you do with the stuff contained in this file. If you get busted, don't cry to us. We don't care. We have never done any of this. Really. And we don't condone it. Uh-huh. And if it doesn't have any of this kind of information, how come you're still reading this? Huh? Answer me! Want more stuff? Go to http://home.piss.nu E-mail the group at piss@softhome.net Mail the editor at defen@gmx.net © Copyright 1999 PISS Publications and also copyrighted by the author. This file may be posted freely as long as this notice stays on the end. All rights reserved. Or something like that.