[colecampbell666]

On my school computers they have put in place many measures to stop the retards from downloading pr0n and loading viruses, but it also stops us from doing intelligent stuff, such as playing video games, using FireFox, and - horror of horrors - going on HLP (it is classed as a match making service)! They have installed AEmanager, Deep Freeze, and a site blocker called NetSweeper. If I could disable AEmanager it would be a simple process to install FireFox with a proxy or run it from my flash drive. Does anyone know how to disable AEmanager, short of creating an account for it in safe mode? Help on disabling Deep Freeze would also be appreciated. Please! For the greater good!

[Polpolion]

Here is what you do: Format the hard drives of every single computer in the school. Then during all of the confusion of the next day, you steal all of the hard drives and RAM and mail them to me. Then I will be able to fix the problem for you.

[G0atmaster]

LOL right...

I had a similar issue.  I got portable firefox and ran it from my memory stick.  www.portableapps.com.  takes longer to load portable firefox than regular, but it's STILL better than IE.  Deep freeze is just annoying.  I know how to pull up the thins to put a password into, but nothing else.  It's no biggie though, just means you gotta redo whatever every day.

FYI if I remember right, Deep Freeze works in such a way that it would even undo/prevent a format.

[Kosh]

Your school would do well to just avoid IE altogether, since it is just a giant gaping security hole.

[karajorma]

Reboot the PC and run a knoppix DVD.

Find your self suspended soon after when they assume that you must be a hacker.

[colecampbell666]

LOL right...

I had a similar issue.  I got portable firefox and ran it from my memory stick.  www.portableapps.com.  takes longer to load portable firefox than regular, but it's STILL better than IE.  Deep freeze is just annoying.  I know how to pull up the thins to put a password into, but nothing else.  It's no biggie though, just means you gotta redo whatever every day.

FYI if I remember right, Deep Freeze works in such a way that it would even undo/prevent a format.

They have an anti-executable program.

[Unknown Target]

Flouting Authority

It's what I do.

Anyway, it won't let you run any executables? Google the registry key for ASEManager and get a batch file to disable it, or find it manually and see if you can do that. Just randomly throwing stuff out there. Also, clicking on lots of things really fast sometimes works.

[Bobboau]

your best bet is knoppix.

[colecampbell666]

Which is?

[Ghostavo]

It's an OS which you can run with a CD/DVD/pen/whatever.

[karajorma]

Yep. The only way they can screw you out of getting knoppix to work is if they have manually altered the BIOS on every single PC to change the boot order and then added a password to stop you from changing it back.

A good admin will have done both. But even if they did it's possible for stuff to slip though the net. Look for a PC that was replaced some time after the rest of the network was installed. Even if a good admin set up the network there's no way to know if someone remembered to do the same things if a PC had to be replaced.

[colecampbell666]

It's a junior-high and my tech-ed teacher (The IT guy) is not that cruel.

Reboot the PC and run a knoppix DVD.

Find your self suspended soon after when they assume that you must be a hacker.

Why?

[Nuke]

Yep. The only way they can screw you out of getting knoppix to work is if they have manually altered the BIOS on every single PC to change the boot order and then added a password to stop you from changing it back.

A good admin will have done both. But even if they did it's possible for stuff to slip though the net. Look for a PC that was replaced some time after the rest of the network was installed. Even if a good admin set up the network there's no way to know if someone remembered to do the same things if a PC had to be replaced.

and if thats the case sneak in a small screw driver, open the side panel and pull the battery
**** i didnt even have the internets in highschool. to ad injury to insult the only computers they had were old macs. so old that they didnt even have cd drives. i did have some internet access in my last couple years when i had comsci and electronics classes, but the computers were either early pentiums or 486es and the internets werent yet fun .

[Kosh]

Yep. The only way they can screw you out of getting knoppix to work is if they have manually altered the BIOS on every single PC to change the boot order and then added a password to stop you from changing it back.

A good admin will have done both. But even if they did it's possible for stuff to slip though the net. Look for a PC that was replaced some time after the rest of the network was installed. Even if a good admin set up the network there's no way to know if someone remembered to do the same things if a PC had to be replaced.

and if thats the case sneak in a small screw driver, open the side panel and pull the battery
**** i didnt even have the internets in highschool. to ad injury to insult the only computers they had were old macs. so old that they didnt even have cd drives. i did have some internet access in my last couple years when i had comsci and electronics classes, but the computers were either early pentiums or 486es and the internets werent yet fun .

Back in the mid 90's when I was in elementary school the best machines we had were Macintosh classic 2's, but a little more than half of the lab were early 80's era Apple 2's.

[Nuke]

i remember for one of my tech classes i had to take a volunteer job at my main school. i ended doing general errands for the teachers. one of my main jobs was to help teachers make coppies. our copy machine was about 9 feet long and 5 feet wide. and sence we were in anchorage the winters were incredibly dry, so we had of static and the machine would frequently jam. i fixed that problem with a couple humidifiers, wonder why they never thought of that.

sometimes they would just give me nothing to do and so id go to the storage room and rummage through old computer hardware finding out what would work and what didnt. they didnt mind becaus usually i was able to get any teacher what they wanted in their rooms. wether it be a computer or a printer or a set of speakers or headphones. some finds were rather astounding, 8-inch floppies for example. i build several apple 2s from scrap parts. in retrospect i didnt have a clue what i was doing. and it was amazing any of them were able to boot. most of the self booting floppies ran. there were a few with a text based os, but i never figured out the command line for it. it clearly wasnt dos.

also found an old ti computer. it was cool cause it was somewhat capable of synthetic speach and the only piece of software it had was a side scrolling space shooter. i managed to con them out of it and took it home. i later sold it at a garage sale for about 5 bucks.

this was all before i even owned a computer. and my only expierience at the time was mac classics, apple 2s and some 286 and 386 machines as well.