How To Block Access To MSN

John_Gray

Isn't the easier solution to say "no PC usage" while your daughter's friend is in the house? I'll bet you aren't as soft as your daughter!

John

lizzie12_2

This is a tricky one.... If I had a teenage daughter I would want to know what she was doing on the pc. Am not very *clever* on the ways with the pc.... have only just mastered this site...yep I know.... have booked a course starting Sept.
Mums allways know best, so mum, do what you think is right for you.x

littleange

Poppycat wrote:

I am having a similar problem and I am going to block it via firewall.

The problem isnt with my own child but her friend. Her friend gets banned from there pc probably because of msn and now comes to our house to use my eldest daughters pc, but all she is doing is using my daughter, my daughter is far too soft to tell her to begger off, and I destest her being used and manipulated like this.

So next time it wont work or failing that I swicth off the IP of her pc so no connection via the router.

Does your daughter mind though? Might it cause trouble for her?

Poppycat

Shes too gullable unfortunately, but she has just said after her freind has gone that shes a nuisance. I have just disconnected the internet from router, two minutes later shes gone. She was here for over 2 hours and not once had my daughter gone on her pc. She is coming back in an hour and I am telling her that she cant go on internet because of usage limits, a liar I no but hopefully she get the message.

Whits

I've recently had a similar situation with my OH's 16 year old.

We got him a laptop for his birthday and exam results and he's off to college to do psychology.

Anyway, he can only get a connection in our bedroom which is no problem till I go to bed. My OH walked in the other night and found him looking at gay !!!!!!. He quickly brought up another program to hide it but not quick enough.

She didn't know how to tell me what he was looking at and also how to tell me he's gay. I already knew, by the way.

I did a bit of searching and found a program that stops anything with any adult words in it from appearing. It starts after installation and it found over 4000 items to be deleted.

I've got no intention of stopping him use MSN, but a naive 16 year old with web access is a dangerous thing.

I will find out the name of the program and report back.

achtunglady

Does she contribute in any way towards paying for the computer or the line rental for access? I would show some tough love and allow access after she has done some chores around the house. To me when kids have things too easy they don't appreciate things, when they have to work to get something they show more care. Or deduct money from her pocket money like she is paying as she would have to in an internet cafe. Remind her that using the computer isn't a god given right, it's a priviledge.

toasterman

Just thought I'd reply back and say I went through a lot of this with my mum when I lived at home (I'm 24 now).

As broadband wasn't available at the time, and my parents were fed up with the constant use of their phone (all monthly flat-rate costs though), I had my own phone line installed with my own internet account.

I then finished college, was unemployed for a while and fell out with them again as I was reluctant to take a bad job just to earn money. I had personal savings which were paying for my line and internet account. They then physically locked the box to prevent me from connecting to my own phone line.

At this point I bought a mobile phone, data cable, and connected my pc that way to get email and chat on msn (despite the additional cost).
Just shows if people are determined enough, they'll get around it one way or another.

It really does depends on who/what your children know. Even if you restrict their computer account and block msn/myspace/etc from their own one, there is software that will reset passwords for admin accounts on all versions of Windows, freely available online - and it doesn't need install rights to run.

If someone put me in that position now, I'd run the software and reset the admin password to something I knew. Then I'd probably change the password for the other person's account and find it highly amusing as the person trying to prevent me access couldn't then log in themselves. I would of course deny all knowledge of this as they got more and more frustrated.

Depends how much of a geek they are though..

littleange

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

Hi - My 16 year old was a happy gregarious kid until about 18 months ago when she discovered MSN and MySpace - she now spends almost every waking moment, when she is in the house, on these sites and if I need the computer she is tetchy and stroppy about having to give it up. Her general behaviour has suffered and she somtimes sits up until very late talking to who knows who... As soon as she comes in from school she goes on and as a result her schoolwork has gone from brilliant to very poor, and I don't expect good GCSE results next week. I have tried limiting her time and taking the data cable out of the computer but this doesn't work as the fall out is unbelievable when she is stopped and she bought a new data cable herself. Doing away with the internet is not an option as I need it for research for work (from home). I need to know if there is any way to block access to MSN - so far when I have removed it she just reinstalls it, parental controlling it doesn't work as she knows all kinds of ways round it and the Telewest Broadband tell me that they can't help. Does anyone know a way to stop access to MSN, hotmail, Myspace etc? I am nearing the end of my tether.

How are things now?