internet lock down of user account

blastman · 29 Jul 2007 at 19:01

hey all,

I have a pc that the owner wishes to lock down the internet access on one of the user accounts.

does anyone have any idea as i'm stumbed!! :confused:

cheers in advance.

marc2003 · 29 Jul 2007 at 19:07

running xp? try this....

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.mspx

edit: i just tried this and you can be pretty evil with what you can lock down. you can go to town on pretty much everything.... :

Fr0dders · 29 Jul 2007 at 19:43

what exactly does she want to stop ?

anything and everything

or ony allow access to a "whitelist" of known safe sites ?

or just plain filtering out of nasty stuff ?

also what OS is the PC they are using ?

Fr0dders · 29 Jul 2007 at 20:53

marc2003 said:
edit: i just tried this and you can be pretty evil with what you can lock down. you can go to town on pretty much everything.... :

thats the stuff you can lock down in policy editor

which is of course unavailable on XP home.

if she's got XP pro it could be really easy to do wihtout any downloads.

Deleted member 58846 · 29 Jul 2007 at 21:03

That is a very nice application designed by Microsoft, one of many.

marc2003 · 29 Jul 2007 at 21:25

MrLOL said:
thats the stuff you can lock down in policy editor

which is of course unavailable on XP home.

if she's got XP pro it could be really easy to do wihtout any downloads.

except restrictions applied in group policy affect all users including admins....

this works on any version of xp and applies restrictions on a per user basis. it has more options and is more user friendly. but oh noes you have to download and install it? :confused:

blastman · 29 Jul 2007 at 21:30

cheers guys that's spot on!!

i have just blocked firefox and iexplorer.

that will do for now. the user in question is "pc" smart but was download loads on porn and causing his mums pc to get bogged down with spyware and virus.

i'll make and changes if there needed remotley, (save another dinner with the in-laws).

thanks again guys and well done microsoft for make a program that works!!!

Fr0dders · 29 Jul 2007 at 23:03

marc2003 said:
but oh noes you have to download and install it?

never said that was a bad thing

just merely commented that if they were using XP pro, the computer could be locked down in a similar fashion using GPedit.

marc2003 · 29 Jul 2007 at 23:48

MrLOL said:
just merely commented that if they were using XP pro, the computer could be locked down in a similar fashion using GPedit.

marc2003 said:
except restrictions applied in group policy affect all users including admins....

internet lock down of user account

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