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WyrmMaster
09-04-01, 10:58 PM
If i can figure out a way to keep people off the internet, but still allow the folding client to connect, then i should be able to get another 9 PIII 800's foldng in my school cad lab. The teacher doesnt want kids on the internet durring class, but im sure he would let me if we could block or disable explorer. There running win 2k if its any help.
Ploaf
09-04-01, 11:27 PM
The only thing that I can think of would be Tweak UI but I haven't bothered with it for some time. This would also change the behaviour of the OS but it probably wouldn't be all that bad. I suppose you could try the security settings and set up different sets of users, but that is not exactly a user friendly way of doing it.
WyrmMaster
09-05-01, 07:24 PM
I have Tweak UI on my comp, but i dont see how you would keep explorer from accessing the internet.
sfa ok
09-05-01, 07:54 PM
Try posting in "Software and operating systems", they could probably help you out there.
Ploaf
09-05-01, 09:44 PM
For some reason I was thinking that it disabled IE. Can't say for sure since I don't have it installed on this machine and haven't bothered with it for a while.
thefly
09-05-01, 10:20 PM
You can use content advisor to lock it down. But it's pretty darn weak.

Easy to crack off.

but better than nothing.

or proxy would be good too.
WyrmMaster
09-05-01, 10:57 PM
Yah, i need a simple and reletivle secure way to keep people off.
DeepScience
09-06-01, 06:44 AM
Can you get ZoneAlarm or some other Software firewall to run in stealth mode - it can certainly block IE from the net the question is if you can block people from seeing the firewall prog... Maybe one of the other freebie ones can run in stealth:cool:
WyrmMaster
09-06-01, 06:29 PM
How about running zonealarm as a service, would that hide it.
Ploaf
09-06-01, 09:52 PM
There is also Tiny Personal Firewall which also requires permissions to be set for different apps. I don't know if either of those can be completely hidden though. Never tried.
WyrmMaster
09-07-01, 04:56 PM
I think Ploaf may have the answer. Tiny requires a password to disable or change settings. Now if i can just get the network admin to let me run the firewall.
DeepScience
09-10-01, 01:06 AM
hmmm, the easiest would be to simply run ZA on the server and change the program permissions to NO for IE when you don't want it able to connect. The problem is that your post seems to say that you want IE to work out of class time which means permissions that are very time dependent. You'd have to have some reallllly expensive or hand written code to make firewall permissions time dependent surely?