Mom Needs Help with Teenager overriding Password

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  1. Posts : 797
    Windows 7 Ultimate (x64)
       #51

    allend66 said:
    unifex said:
    ... I think the OP has to understand clearly what is it that she wants to achieve. What she wrote so far - and we know nothing else - she's trying to prevent her daughter from using the Internet...
    Er, nope.. supermom's post (post #43) says the daughter logs on to her admin account on Win7 boot.

    Encrypt the system truecrypt thus requiring a password way before the win7 logon screen appears.
    Well, later on she writes that she pulled the network and for now that's her solution.

    Now, by saying "achieve" I don't mean any immediate goal such as prohibit the use of the internet or the home PC. The point is, why would the OP want that? To what purpose? Granted, this is a technical forum and she came with a technical question, but I still don't see how locking the home PC would prevent her daughter from using computers in general - will she also lock her daughter at home and not let her go to school?

    I repeat - there is no 100% bulletproof security tool to completely lock up a PC. The only thing that can be achieved, is to set up security measures which would be above the daughters skill level. But if she's really determined, she could learn and eventually bypass that as well. Or if her goal is not some particular data on that very PC (and it looks like it's not, judging by the network-pulling solution), she can just go some place else.

    That's why I think this is a parenting issue more than a technical issue. Prohibitive measures just drive children and parents further apart, which in my opinion is counterproductive. But I guess I will stop here.
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  2. Posts : 6,618
    W7x64 Pro, SuSe 12.1/** W7 x64 Pro, XP MCE
       #52

    This is an area that I have no experience with, but depending on the computer, the side panel may be lockable, and if one installs an intrusion switch, which disables the computer until reset, and a BIOS password is set, I suppose that it is possible for all of that to be defeated, but it would take a lot of determination to do.
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  3. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #53

    Off Topic:
    I have to ask, unifex, what is OP?
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  4. Posts : 660
    win7
       #54

    Hi Britton, It stands for Original Poster...ie supermum.
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  5. Posts : 146
    W7 Pro 64bit
       #55

    Lock up the room the computer is in - use the door lock and add a serious pad lock or something?
    fmg
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  6. Posts : 385
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 OEM --> RTM clean install
       #56

    pdxireland said:
    Lock up the room the computer is in - use the door lock and add a serious pad lock or something?
    fmg
    Or cut her hands off. (joke! DON'T do this!)
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  7. Posts : 354
    Windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, Pear Linux Triple Boot
       #57

    wilywombat said:
    Hi Supermum...are you reading all the posts and not just the ones you want? Please read my post #38 it explains how your daughter can BYPASS any password you set except the BIOS, but that can be reset by pulling the motherboard battery.
    This again! If she is at the PC there are many tools that are undetectible and require no keylogger. with out to much detail, I use these tools sometimes when repairing computers and they forget to tell me what the password is or I can't get a hold of the owner. Again as well, BIOS passwords on a desktop are easy to get around as well.

    A serious talk/grounding (Beating! just kidding DO NOT beat her) would do more than trying to stop her with software. It sounds to me like she has a better idea of what she is doing than given credit for here :)
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  8. Posts : 578
    Windows 7 Pro x64
       #58

    Sorry I have to say this.
    Someone in that house hold need to get straighten out. Whether that is the daughter or first the mom and dad has yet to be determined.

    This is just totally ridiculous. And you expect your daughter to have any real moral judgement for the rest of her life when you can't even get her to obey some simple computer restrictions.
    Has she stolen the car yet? That will be next as soon as you tell her she can't use it.

    GET REAL. With yourself and your daughter before it is to late.
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  9.    #59

    Mr. 420: For those of us who don't have the "special abilities" you have:

    Please explain how a computer which is clean reinstalled, given a strong password during setup, then only allowed access via a Standard User account can be hacked to bypass the password without reinstalling again.

    I am assuming a keylogger or other bypass has been installed which would not be there if a clean reinstall was done. But apparently there are other methods and it would be good to know what they are.
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  10. Posts : 1,814
    XP / Win7 x64 Pro
       #60

    gregrocker said:
    Mr. 420: For those of us who don't have the special abilities you have:

    Please explain how a computer which is clean reinstalled, given a strong password during setup, then only allowed access via a Standard User account can be hacked to bypass the password.
    NT Boot Disc. She has physical access.

    At any rate, this doesn't sound like a problem where the fix lies in Seven Forums technical help. We've listed all the options possible to deter or prevent someone from logging in to a local machine. The rest of the answer lies in SuperMom.
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