Teens, parental controls and safe mode

[tom982]

Above all be polite, and if you don't have anything constructive to say, then don't bother, as a ban often offends

Tom

 

[Smurfyy]

Trust a 15 year old boy with free access to the trash that is online these days? Good luck with that. And still you just have to "trust them?" I don't care how "good" the kid is.......free porn to easily hide from your Mom and Dad? Come on.

Hey! Just remember that there are some 15 year olds on this forum that can be trusted.
Just because your son, or your friends son can't be trusted doesn't mean the rest of us can't be.

Im a "good" kid, and i don't have time for pron, im more interested in going out with my mates and getting good grades at school so i can get a job in the city when i leave school. Jeez

I would just let the kid download it along with a load of viruses, let him learn from his mistakes.

But then you risk infecting the other computers on the network, have to pay a lot to remove the virus and have a big fine for downloading files illegally.

But I agree about the first comment, some people can be trusted, it just depends on the person. No offence, but I think your comment was a bit aggressive because Dee wasn't saying that you couldn't be trusted, she was just making a point.

Tom

Okay, fair enough.
And sorry Dee, i just had to get that out, it annoys me that because the adults see kids doing bad stuff, then we are all labled as bad, even the good ones like me.
Again, sorry.

 

[tom982]

Hey! Just remember that there are some 15 year olds on this forum that can be trusted.
Just because your son, or your friends son can't be trusted doesn't mean the rest of us can't be.

Im a "good" kid, and i don't have time for pron, im more interested in going out with my mates and getting good grades at school so i can get a job in the city when i leave school. Jeez

I would just let the kid download it along with a load of viruses, let him learn from his mistakes.

But then you risk infecting the other computers on the network, have to pay a lot to remove the virus and have a big fine for downloading files illegally.

But I agree about the first comment, some people can be trusted, it just depends on the person. No offence, but I think your comment was a bit aggressive because Dee wasn't saying that you couldn't be trusted, she was just making a point.

Tom

Okay, fair enough.
And sorry Dee, i just had to get that out, it annoys me that because the adults see kids doing bad stuff, then we are all labled as bad, even the good ones like me.
Again, sorry.

Yeah, I know what you're getting at. I'm glad you have seen the error in your ways

Tom

 

[Shadowjk]

I understand were Daniel is coming from...

 

[Smurfyy]

Yeah, I know what you're getting at. I'm glad you have seen the error in your ways

Tom

I understand were Daniel is coming from...

Thanks guys

Okay, lets stop him from using UTorrent..

Dee, you said you want to get rid of UTorrent, you should be able to go;
Start>type programs and features and hit enter>when the window comes up, click in the search box in the top right corner and type torrent >right click UTorret from the list and click uninstall > go thru the process of uninstallation and it should be gone.

If that doesn't work;
Start>Computer> navigate to C:\Program Files\uTorrent > right click and delete the program that is in there and it should be gone.
Leave the short-cut on the desktop so he still thinks its there.

Hope this helps,
Daniel =)

 

[tom982]

Yeah, I know what you're getting at. I'm glad you have seen the error in your ways

Tom

I understand were Daniel is coming from...

Thanks guys

Okay, lets stop him from using UTorrent..

Dee, you said you want to get rid of UTorrent, you should be able to go;
Start>type programs and features and hit enter>when the window comes up, click in the search box in the top right corner and type torrent >right click UTorret from the list and click uninstall > go thru the process of uninstallation and it should be gone.

If that doesn't work;
Start>Computer> navigate to C:\Program Files\uTorrent > right click and delete the program that is in there and it should be gone.
Leave the short-cut on the desktop so he still thinks its there.

Hope this helps,
Daniel =)

The short cut wont display the icon so if you want him to think that it is there, then you will have to make your own utorrent icon and then assign it to that shortcut.

Tom

 

[MamaDee6]

<<<<Dee, you said you want to get rid of UTorrent, you should be able to go;
Start>type programs and features and hit enter>when the window comes up, click in the search box in the top right corner and type torrent >right click UTorret from the list and click uninstall > go thru the process of uninstallation and it should be gone.>>>>>

I tried that and it doesn't find it. But.....I then tried this:

<<<<If that doesn't work;
Start>Computer> navigate to C:\Program Files\uTorrent > right click and delete the program that is in there and it should be gone>>>>

I found it that way, but can't delete it. It tells me I need an admin. password...which I put in. Then a box comes up that says, "Destination Folder Access Denied" I try clicking "try again" and it just keeps coming up. After a few times of clicking on it, it looks like it's putting it into the recycle bin, but it's still there. I looked all through utorrent for some security thing, but can't find what to do? Any ideas? I tried turning off parental controls altogether, thinking that might be blocking an action like that, but it didn't help.

Dee

 

[tom982]

Try uninstalling it in safe mode, if you have not yet disabled it.

Tom

 

[MamaDee6]

Oh, and also.....

<<<<<<Okay, fair enough.
And sorry Dee, i just had to get that out, it annoys me that because the adults see kids doing bad stuff, then we are all labled as bad, even the good ones like me.
Again, sorry.>>>>

No offense taken. And please know I am NOT saying that all 15 year olds are bad. I'm not even saying my 14 year old and his 15 year old friend are "bad." These boys are decent, Christian boys...very active in their church youth group, boy scouts, they do volunteer work, my son is a pretty gifted pianist. etc. I'm just saying that if your looking around for Iron Man torrents and there is porn right there........it would tempt even the best of teenage boys. Not to excuse what they did. I know not every 15 year old would have done it. It makes me happy to hear you say you wouldn't. His torrent file was almost funny, if it wasn't so serious. "Bionicle, Alvin and the Chipmonks, Iron Man and lesbian tub scene." Sigh......

Dee

 

[tom982]

Oh, and also.....

<<<<<<Okay, fair enough.
And sorry Dee, i just had to get that out, it annoys me that because the adults see kids doing bad stuff, then we are all labled as bad, even the good ones like me.
Again, sorry.>>>>

No offense taken. And please know I am NOT saying that all 15 year olds are bad. I'm not even saying my 14 year old and his 15 year old friend are "bad." These boys are decent, Christian boys...very active in their church youth group, boy scouts, they do volunteer work, my son is a pretty gifted pianist. etc. I'm just saying that if your looking around for Iron Man torrents and there is porn right there........it would tempt even the best of teenage boys. Not to excuse what they did. I know not every 15 year old would have done it. It makes me happy to hear you say you wouldn't. His torrent file was almost funny, if it wasn't so serious. "Bionicle, Alvin and the Chipmonks, Iron Man and lesbian tub scene." Sigh......

Dee

What an exquisite taste for movies

Tom

 

[dinesh]

You can disable Safe Moe using the tutorial at How to Turn Off Safe Mode on Windows Vista | eHow.com but this will severely hinder your ability to fix the computer if it catches a virus.

If you feel it's necessary then by all means do it.

Putting a password on the BIOS prevents the changing of the system clock in it (which is how most people get round time limits).

You should also disable the Command Prompt so he can't gain access to the hidden Administrator account which allows you to be in ful control wit out a password (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/152934-command-prompt-enable-disable.html).

Hopefully this will lock down your PC enough for most 14 year olds to get into, although the one thing you can't protect against is him installing/using a Linux distro but as long as he doesn't catch word that this is possible you'll be fine.

Make sure he is not an Administrator too, but I'm pretty sure he's not.

Oli

Very well stated.

 

[MamaDee6]

What an exquisite taste for movies >>>>

Very funny. ; )


BTW, the deleting utorrent in safemode worked. Thank you SO much. Do I need to worry about winRAR? I so appreciate everyone's help.

Dee

 

[niemiro]

What an exquisite taste for movies >>>>

Very funny. ; )


BTW, the deleting utorrent in safemode worked. Thank you SO much. Do I need to worry about winRAR? I so appreciate everyone's help.

Dee

No, this is legitimate and safe, and will cause more problems by deleting it. It is not one of your problems.

 

[tom982]

What an exquisite taste for movies >>>>

Very funny. ; )


BTW, the deleting utorrent in safemode worked. Thank you SO much. Do I need to worry about winRAR? I so appreciate everyone's help.

Dee

No, this is legitimate and safe, and will cause more problems by deleting it. It is not one of your problems.

The only hesitation I may have with this is that he may have downloaded illegally, do you know whether this is the case? If he has downloaded it illegally, then it may not be safe, so perhaps it would be a good idea to reinstall it, just in case he has patched it or something.

 

[Smurfyy]

Great to hear you have got rid of it!

 

[niemiro]

What an exquisite taste for movies >>>>

Very funny. ; )


BTW, the deleting utorrent in safemode worked. Thank you SO much. Do I need to worry about winRAR? I so appreciate everyone's help.

Dee

No, this is legitimate and safe, and will cause more problems by deleting it. It is not one of your problems.

The only hesitation I may have with this is that he may have downloaded illegally, do you know whether this is the case? If he has downloaded it illegally, then it may not be safe, so perhaps it would be a good idea to reinstall it, just in case he has patched it or something.

I see your point, it is completely valid. I was wondering about this as I typed, but ...

Dee: Do you know if this was downloaded illegally?

 

[MamaDee6]

No idea. Would it be a case of where it came from? Because he doesn't know. I asked him if he had to patch anything and he said no. How would I know if it's o.k. and why would it not be o.k.?

 

[tom982]

If software is downloaded illegally, then people will decompile it and edit it so that it thinks that it is registered. During this process they also have the opportunity to include a virus in the file. If you run WinRAR, and then go on help, and I don't know what it is called (because I don't have winrar) but it should say something like "About" or "License Details". Click on that. If it displays it as being registered, and you know that he hasn't purchased the software, then uninstall it. And then you can download it from the official website:

WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files


Tom

 

[tom982]

Yes, sorry you go to:

Help > About WinRAR

Tom

 

[MamaDee6]

So WinRAR is something you pay for? I know he didn't do that.

Dee