I have a mentally ill teen who is getting herself into serious danger with the internet. I have net nanny, she researched how to turn it off. She will steal wireless cards and hack into neighboring wifi so I can't just turn off my router. I'd rather not take away the computer entirely because otherwise she gets bored and starts big fights that can escalate into police getting called. Is there any foolproof way to disable her internet access from Windows 7?
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Metalrenok
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Just a few thoughts on your security issue.
I wouldn't say foolproof as she sounds pretty enterprising in getting access, but have you considered making her a user without administrative privileges and then (using your administrative account) disabling the wireless access. You could leave wired access with THIS firmware on your router (although you may have to buy a compatible router) to control her Internet to what you will allow using a whitelist? You will need to lock down your router with a high quality password, turn off WPS to prevent a Reaver attack, use a strong password on your administrative account, and physically protect the router from manual resets. If you expect her to try a clean Windows install, you will also need to use a bios password and disable boots from other than the HDD.
Store all of your passwords in a secure location.
I wouldn't say foolproof as she sounds pretty enterprising in getting access, but have you considered making her a user without administrative privileges and then (using your administrative account) disabling the wireless access. You could leave wired access with THIS firmware on your router (although you may have to buy a compatible router) to control her Internet to what you will allow using a whitelist? You will need to lock down your router with a high quality password, turn off WPS to prevent a Reaver attack, use a strong password on your administrative account, and physically protect the router from manual resets. If you expect her to try a clean Windows install, you will also need to use a bios password and disable boots from other than the HDD.
Store all of your passwords in a secure location.
The best way is to remove the ability to connect which means removing the wireless card, If she is stealing wireless cards, then this isn't going to work. Disabling the wireless in bios and password protecting it is probably the best way.
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I have a standalone Linux firewall box. Allows you to selectively enforce such things as:
"That PC (MAC address and IP address) can only go to these sites, and only between the hours of 7-9PM."
Everything goes through that box. Any admin to that is password protected.
Hacking in to neighbors WiFi? Only 2 ways to prevent that. Train your neighbors, and turn off WiFi on the teens devices.
And when my kids were of that age, the one standing rule in the house was....no PC's in a kids bedroom. Period. No exceptions. Any kid use PC lived in a common room, screen facing out into the room.
"That PC (MAC address and IP address) can only go to these sites, and only between the hours of 7-9PM."
Everything goes through that box. Any admin to that is password protected.
Hacking in to neighbors WiFi? Only 2 ways to prevent that. Train your neighbors, and turn off WiFi on the teens devices.
And when my kids were of that age, the one standing rule in the house was....no PC's in a kids bedroom. Period. No exceptions. Any kid use PC lived in a common room, screen facing out into the room.
Shaun o
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Yes there is, but it depends on how smart she is.
Your first option is this.
Depending on what operating system is running.
Windows xp, Vista, or windows 7.
Click on start.
In the search box bellow type : Device manager.
Click on the icon that appears.
A windows will open listing all the devices connected.
Look down that list to where it says network devices.
Left click on it.
It will list one or two network devices.
Right click on one and select disable.
And if it lists wi-fi do the same again.
The next time the Pc is re started or used after it no network devices will work to be able to connect to the internet.
The other is to block her Ethernet or wi-fi connection by a router if used.
A bit more complex-ed.
As it involves blocking the Mac address of the device via the wireless router.
Routers also have a feature where you can block websites and things as a from of control. To limit a user or users from them accessing them.
Obviously once done make sure she cannot login to the router to revert the settings.
Change the password to log into it.
Your first option is this.
Depending on what operating system is running.
Windows xp, Vista, or windows 7.
Click on start.
In the search box bellow type : Device manager.
Click on the icon that appears.
A windows will open listing all the devices connected.
Look down that list to where it says network devices.
Left click on it.
It will list one or two network devices.
Right click on one and select disable.
And if it lists wi-fi do the same again.
The next time the Pc is re started or used after it no network devices will work to be able to connect to the internet.
The other is to block her Ethernet or wi-fi connection by a router if used.
A bit more complex-ed.
As it involves blocking the Mac address of the device via the wireless router.
Routers also have a feature where you can block websites and things as a from of control. To limit a user or users from them accessing them.
Obviously once done make sure she cannot login to the router to revert the settings.
Change the password to log into it.
If you do need to allow some access to internet I would try K9 from bluecoat and is completely free. This one is close to impossible to get out if the user does not have admin rights on the machine. K9 is very strong and prevents most the VPN/PROXY bypasses and since the list is constantly updated it is much harder to find a new proxy.
While you are in the bios force it to only boot from the hard drive no USB or CD/DVD. It does not take kids long to figure out they can load and run a complete OS off removable media. When you can load prebuilt copies of ubuntu that runs only in memory and give access to every hard drive hacking tool even not have admin rights will not stop some. Of course they could just use the booted DVD image to surf using a USB based nic and not even bother to modify the real OS and there will be no record of this.
While you are in the bios force it to only boot from the hard drive no USB or CD/DVD. It does not take kids long to figure out they can load and run a complete OS off removable media. When you can load prebuilt copies of ubuntu that runs only in memory and give access to every hard drive hacking tool even not have admin rights will not stop some. Of course they could just use the booted DVD image to surf using a USB based nic and not even bother to modify the real OS and there will be no record of this.
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