How to outsmart a Teenager

The funny thing is that the kid probably went to a forum just like this and wrote

"I think my kid disabled my admin rights - is there a way to get control of my computer back?"

and someone helped him bypass it.

LoLx, well then the kid is learning
which is a good thing

Personally I would switch from net nanny to something less commmon that all the teenagers already know how to bypass. I have 3 kids myself and I don't use net nanny or any other restrictive software. Not becasue I don't want them to be safe but rather I apply restrictions through makafee's parental controls to all acccounts not just theirs. I know however its easy to get passed so I take the parental approach if you do something wrong you'll be banned from using the PC. They love playing flash games so much they don't take the risk.

I did do one other thing as well mind you. I moved the PC from my sons room downstairs so everyone can see what they are doing.

I find the problems only tend to come now when their friends send something and they profer some appropriate expletive and i know whats happening straight away. The only dilema I have then is whether to tell the other childs parents or not.

One final point, teenagers are intelligent, they spend all their day trying to do what their teacher asks the easy way instead of spending time on it. If they want to get past parental controls they will so you are better off being a parent helping them achive rather than restricting what they can do.

Ona nother note perhaps you shoudl consider employing this child prodegy when he's old enough, sounds like he's up to the job already

Paul

sounds like the kid enjoys getting around the blocks more then the porn

if hes looking at porn then hes not a kid. anyone can get past that type of stuff on a home computer - unless it is custom programmed and ends up making the system useless

My thoughts exactly.

a few things you can do:
password the bios.
remove boot from cd as an option [not available on all mobo]
change regedit.exe and regedit32.exe permissions to deny all for that user.
(they can get around it with change ownership.. but disabling that may work)

Outsmarting teenagers... Difficult but doable. We have to do it everyday... We work in substance abuse.