Hard Times Ahead

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Originally posted by Prince Simba
Okay. Here's the problem: my parents are as paranoid as Simba in Simba's Pride. They're about to install parental controls on my computer, which surprises me because I've had it for almost a year now and they haven't gotten around to it.

Now, I can probably get around to figuring out how to disable the program, or just crack the password or something, but until then I may have to lower the amount of time I spend on MSN & AIM, just to protect my own privacy as well as that of my friends.

So, for now, I bid you good times. I'll probably be back soon. =)

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Yeah i have this problem my mum installed the perental controls cause of all of my viruses that i downloaded 48 to be precised
:D if you find out their password you can turn it off and they won't know be cause it won't tell them, when it was disabled, cause it actually turns off after a period of time and needs reset:cheese:

Ahh, yes, parental controls. Fond memories. A very, very long time ago, my parents attempted to regulate the amount of time I could spend using the computer with a software package that took advantage of security tools within Windows and could not be uninstalled or have its running process terminated. As soon as I learned that my time was to be limited, I began planning my counterattack.

Problem: The initial configuration of the software limited my use to windows of time between hour x and hour y during the day.
Solution: I advanced the system clock through BIOS to times when my account would unlock.

Problem: My father passworded the BIOS. I could no longer advance the system clock.
Solution: My account still had administrator privileges on the system. I downloaded and installed Proactive Windows Security Explorer, an application that decrypts account passwords on local and remote computers. I ran a "brute force" hack on my parents' administrator account and attained the password within seven minutes. Rather than change settings to the parental controls and leave obvious evidence of what I had done, I simply used my parents' account while on my computer.

Somewhere along the line, the parental controls were changed to allow x number of hours of use in a week. I forget exactly when the change occurred.

Problem: A trip to my father's computer for unrelated reasons yielded unexpected results. Upon opening Google and beginning to type in my search terms, the auto complete window appeared with a list of similar previous searches, one in particular catching my eye. My father had been looking up information on a subfolder within the Windows install directory that stores caches for starting up programs. My curiosity turned to concern as I realized that my father could determine exactly when I was using certain applications by looking at the "Modified" time for the cache files.
Solution: I began manually clearing out the cache directory every time I got off my computer.

Problem: I was eventually discovered. My account was stripped of its administrator privileges and the password on the parent account was changed. I could no longer install, uninstall, or even run programs that were not expressly permitted by the controls.
Solution: On a hunch, I went to the BIOS and entered the same password that was first used on the parent account. Sure enough, the BIOS unlocked and I immediately changed the password to something only I would know. My foot was now firmly in the door.

Problem: I still had no way to run cracking software on my own computer.
Solution: I turned to a very old, unused computer we had lying around. The cracking software was installed on this re-discovered computer and I investigated how to crack passwords on a separate computer. As I learned, there are two files within the Windows directory that store all password information for the computer called SAM and SYSTEM. Both are necessary to decrypt the passwords. To retrieve them, I grabbed two floppy disks and formatted one as an MS-DOS startup disk and emptied the other of its contents except for a command line archiver. I took the disks to my computer and booted the system with the startup disk. When the command line appeared, I swapped in the archiver disk and located the SAM and SYSTEM files on my computer. Both were compressed into an archive on the floppy disk and I returned to my "base of operations" at the old computer. I started up the cracking software, pointed it to the extracted files I had attained, and ran a brute force crack attack as I had done before. Within hours, the password was mine.

Tensions continued for a while longer until my parents and I eventually reached an agreement that they would no longer interfere with my computer use as long as my academics remained strong, something which had never proven a problem. There were no power struggles after that.

Umm I remember a program I downloaded to piss my parents off.. They Put a parental lock on my computer with some program, and it hid itself from the Task Manager so i couldnt end the process So I downloaded some kind of Keylogger onto my computer.. hold on i'll figure out what it was.. Oh well nvm I deleted it off the comp, but it was useful, the program my mom used you would have to put in a pass, and to put the pass it you would hit ctr + P and it would start up when you put it in, I set the key logger on, went to school, and found out my mom put in the pass, I used it, put in the pass for the program lol and disabled it, found out the name and deleted it from comp, My mom went on the next day and found out it was gone, tried to put another one on it and i got a program called.. Umm Zone Alarm, and put it so you can't download ANYTHING from the internet, she got so mad at me, all i said when i got home was, "Owned Please!" Lol it was so hilarious, Shes not that bright when it comes to computers. :P