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bypassing or disabling content filters on PACs
4:23 PM EDT 5/7/07
Am a small public library with the ESD as our ISP. We have 7 Public Access computers. Being on the network with the local school district, we are subject to all the filters decreed by the school superintendent. Is there some kind of hardware or software that is out there that we can use to bypass or disable the filtering currently in placefor only the computers located at the Public Library? All web-based games; ebay and chat sites are blocked as well as any site with "inappropriate" content. The definition of inappropriate is up to the discretion of the school superintendent.
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Re: bypassing or disabling content filters on PACs
7:51 PM EDT 5/9/07
as a reply to Theresa Chandler.
This is one of those situations where it really depends on the specifics of the system.
If they are using a proxy server for the filtering - which for a school is likely - it may be as simple as removing the proxy settings from the Internet Options on each of your computers. Or that may not work at all if you are being prevented some other way from directly accessing the internet, or if traffic isn't redirected on a computer by computer basis. But it's easy enough to try:
In Internet Explorer, go to Tools>Internet Options
Click on the Connections tab
Click on the LAN Setting button
If there is anything in the Proxy Server section, first write down the settings, and then delete them.
Click OK back out.
Try getting to the Internet. If you can't, you might want to go replace the settings.
If you don't see anything in LAN Settings, then you may be forced to work with the school's IT person to figure something else out.
Dale
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Re: bypassing or disabling content filters on PACs
11:04 PM EDT 5/9/07
as a reply to Theresa Chandler.
Not sure if you are comfortable with this type of thing, but there are a ton of sites that allow you to get around filters.
For example, Peacefire (http://www.peacefire.org/) has details about how to install Circumventor (http://www.peacefire.org/circumventor/simple-circumventor-instructions.html) which is installed on a computer outside the filtered network and it acts as a proxy server for the other computers to provide unfiltered access.
From a quick search, there are other sites which have lists of proxy servers that you can use also. For example:
How to bypass your school/work/internet cafe site filters - 7 ways
http://blog.thedruid.co.uk/2006/01/23/how-to-bypass-your-schoolworkinternet-cafe-site-filters-6-ways/
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