Biggest Project to date.......

ace2109 · 22 Oct 2007 at 21:29

Hi guys,
This will be my biggest project to date. A local charity have asked me to setup some new computers for them in addition to their exisitng ones.

Basically what i was thinking of doing is this:

All the machines need to be limited right down to the bare basic's, i was thinking of doing this through the registry???

The only machines that dont need limiting are the office machines they are fine just plug them into the network and thats it.

But the other machines need to have parental controls and such software to stop the young kids using them gaining access to unwanted material.

I was going to stop access to sites such as bebo using the router and then filter out key words like "P**N" etc etc using some sort of software, what do you guys think????

ace

ace2109 · 22 Oct 2007 at 22:06

i was having a look at that just there now mate, it seems to be what im after i was also having a look at windows steadystate to control windows access and things but i thibk limiting down through the registry is a better option.

ace2109 · 23 Oct 2007 at 22:59

hybrid said:
CensorNet V3 for web filtering and proxying.

I take it this project is all in the same building/site?

Are the other PC's just 'cybercafe' style machines open for anyone to use?

The pcs in the cafe are open for anyone to use, ie will display Internet Explorer all the time and thats it.

I am going to disable explorer.exe from loading automatically when windows starts but how do i get internet explorer to load automatically????

ace2109 · 24 Oct 2007 at 22:12

encephalopathy said:
put the shortcut to iexplore.exe into the startup folder??

I cant do this, as i will not be using explorer.exe and im nearly sure the startup folder only starts programs after the explorer.exe has loaded.

ace2109 · 24 Oct 2007 at 22:15

#Chri5# said:
Anychance of a diagram that doesn't make me think I'm going blind?

Have you already got the internet cafe PCs? If not, consider something like a Wyse WinTerm. They have IE 6 in ROM and are simple to lock down - much less agro than a PC IMHO.

I'd suggest something like a SonicWall TotalSecure 10 or 25. That includes content filtering, anti-spyware, gateway anti-virus for a 1 year.

Yea they had already purchased everything from a high street retailer :mad:

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They are doing this on a very tight budget in fact i had to talk them round to letting me get a router for them, they were just going to use an awful little usb thingy, hateful little things.

ace