Private Laptop Is Blocked By School

[bonobo]

My friend's cousin is visiting, and she has her private laptop with her.  However, she can only access her school website.  All other website receive a 503, access denied.  This despite the fact that she is using my network to log in today.

WHIle she is using the school ISP, they can block anything, of course.  But how do I remove the block so that she can use the internet while she is visiting here?

[bonobo]

I read online that pressing F8 during powerup that this will remove the restrictions by re-setting the factory defaults.  Will this work, and will doing that change anything else?

[bino]

Hazarding a wild guess, I would check the browser settings to see if there is any proxy server configured. If there is, delete the settings so that the browser uses no proxy. Write them down so that you can re-configure it back when she leaves.

[surayu]

Try to go on the "security" and the "privacy" option tabs of your internet browser and click on "reset to default" also you might want to get rid of any "proxy"

[bonobo]

Where would I find the proxy settings?

I have gone to Internet Options on Explorer, then to Security, but I can't find "privacy."

[surayu]

Where would I find the proxy settings?

I have gone to Internet Options on Explorer, then to Security, but I can't find "privacy."

Connection >>Lan Settings>>Proxy

what version of IE do you have?

[Supernova]

Click the "Connections" tab in Internet Properties;

Under Local Area Network (LAN) settings at the bottom, click the "LAN Settings" button

[bonobo]

Thanks!  That gave me the hint I needed to find it online, and now it works.

[bonobo]

Posted too soon.  I end up doing exactly as surayu and supernova instructed.

Thanks again.

[siamect]

My friend's cousin is visiting, and she has her private laptop with her. However, she can only access her school website. All other website receive a 503, access denied. This despite the fact that she is using my network to log in today.

WHIle she is using the school ISP, they can block anything, of course. But how do I remove the block so that she can use the internet while she is visiting here?

I think you should give the school a serious compliant. What right do they have to mess up a private computer for a kid?...

What is the name of the school?

I have kids and I want to avoid such schools...

Martin

[surayu]

you welcome sir

[bonobo]

Actually, it is a university.  She uses them for access, and she had to turn in her laptop for a virus check.  I guess they stuck in the proxy then.

[OriginalPoster]

My friend's cousin is visiting, and she has her private laptop with her. However, she can only access her school website. All other website receive a 503, access denied. This despite the fact that she is using my network to log in today.

WHIle she is using the school ISP, they can block anything, of course. But how do I remove the block so that she can use the internet while she is visiting here?

I think you should give the school a serious compliant. What right do they have to mess up a private computer for a kid?...

What is the name of the school?

I have kids and I want to avoid such schools...

You're assuming that something more nefarious is going on than the proxy settings necessary to access the internet via the the school's internal network having been keyed in. The use of proxies is common inside campus and corporate networks and if you want to connect to the internet from within their internal network you're going to need to enter their proxy settings onto your PC.

[siamect]

You're assuming that something more nefarious is going on than the proxy settings necessary to access the internet via the the school's internal network having been keyed in. The use of proxies is common inside campus and corporate networks and if you want to connect to the internet from within their internal network you're going to need to enter their proxy settings onto your PC.

I assume that someone from the school screwed her computer up to suit the schools needs rather than paying proper respect to the students privacy.

Proxies are common but you can force the traffic through the proxy without changing anything in a private computer belonging to a student.

Who do you think should be in charge of that computer? Student or school?

Martin

[OriginalPoster]

You're assuming that something more nefarious is going on than the proxy settings necessary to access the internet via the the school's internal network having been keyed in. The use of proxies is common inside campus and corporate networks and if you want to connect to the internet from within their internal network you're going to need to enter their proxy settings onto your PC.

I assume that someone from the school screwed her computer up to suit the schools needs rather than paying proper respect to the students privacy.

Proxies are common but you can force the traffic through the proxy without changing anything in a private computer belonging to a student.

Who do you think should be in charge of that computer? Student or school?

Martin

Proxies are a pretty trivial thing to try to turn into a socio-political issue. I guess that some people just need to have a cause to pursue. Is your objection that the school entered the IP address of a proxy server into the student's laptop, or that proxies are inherently evil? If the student is so dam_n stupid that they don't know how to look at their computer's network connection settings, then frankly they don't belong in college in the first place.

[siamect]

Proxies are a pretty trivial thing to try to turn into a socio-political issue. I guess that some people just need to have a cause to pursue. Is your objection that the school entered the IP address of a proxy server into the student's laptop, or that proxies are inherently evil? If the student is so dam_n stupid that they don't know how to look at their computer's network connection settings, then frankly they don't belong in college in the first place.

And who helped you with your network settings?

Guns, knives and proxies are not evil, but some people obviously are.

Are you a teacher at that school, or maybe the owner? How come you have the knowledge about this students assumed stupidity?

Why are you defending the schools action in this case? They have absolutely no reason to mess with the students private computers!

[OriginalPoster]

Proxies are a pretty trivial thing to try to turn into a socio-political issue. I guess that some people just need to have a cause to pursue. Is your objection that the school entered the IP address of a proxy server into the student's laptop, or that proxies are inherently evil? If the student is so dam_n stupid that they don't know how to look at their computer's network connection settings, then frankly they don't belong in college in the first place.

Guns, knives and proxies are not evil, but some people obviously are.

Are you a teacher at that school, or maybe the owner? How come you have the knowledge about this students assumed stupidity?

Why are you defending the schools action in this case? They have absolutely no reason to mess with the students private computers!

I have no idea which school is under discussion, but if the student is that concerned about their privacy then they should not be turning their computer over to any 3rd party under any circumstances.

There are a lot of good reasons not to turn your computer over to a 3rd party but them inputting proxy settings would have to be pretty low down on the list. If the student has the intention of using the university's network and voluntarily hands their computer over to the school's IT staff, then no invasion of privacy has occurred if the IT staff enters the school's proxy settings into the computer. If they steal private files off the computer, that's another matter - and that's what I would worry more about as a student than that the the IT staff might covertly enable my computer to connect to the internet via the school's network. Network settings I can always change back, but if someone steals financial or personal records off my computer they could do me some real damage.