University Firewall

I once got MSN installed in the old sql labs in Ellison!

back of the net indeed.

yeah i used it for the whole seminar! it wouldnt work when i went back the next week tho?

MSN is installed with Windows - there's usually a cheeky way of activating it - EVEN when you think it's not installed ( add/rem Programs > Windows components )

However u can't now - Anyone trying to run .exe, .bat, .com, .vbs on open access labs won't be allowed AND emails is automatically sent via the monitoring software

Get admin rights and then you are sorted

No longer given out

hehe I remember playing around with all this stuff.

All the Instant Messenging progs were disabled til I found Trillian which worked fine!!

The only dload software I could get to work was DC++
All the other progs installation involved writing to directories/folders on the C: drive which i didnt have permission to access. DC++ installed in my own directory fine.
Switch to Passive mode and away I went.

Many an night sat in the 24 hour comp room with my usb zip drive attached leeching at top speeds.... disk after disk :computer:

If you do the right course you can

dont work no more tho

can get a few bittorrents going on some machines tho if you install bitornado in temp

I was in my lecture today with my laptop and I could get a decent wireless signal so was chatting away on msn for a few mins! was pretty funny to be able to do!

shouldnt this be in the geeks forum its making my head hurt trying to read it

Janet was brought in originally for educational purposes and as such lamers downloading from p2p and the like should be blocked anyway. It does depend what uni you are at as to what the administrators are like, if they are bent they will likely have lax policies in effect regarding transfers as long as they are not routed through the USA. Is this still the case on janet, that the unis are billed for usa bound traffic only?
I know of one uni where a top site used to run and did so for years. This was a few years ago though.

isnt JANET the name of the inter library network up there??

janet is the backbone that connects all the educational institutes together.

I was working on super janet a few years back its AMAZING

Think so....

One of my mates at uni got busted downloading copious amounts of material onto his laptop it was all trans atlantic traffic so it showed up and they werent too chuffed!

Think it was an entire series of the simpsons!

what is the throughput on that?

quite often u can get onto IRC and use places like xdcc and ircspy if u know what you are doing. This is the only way my mate at manc uni is able to get anything through the firewall.