Vista Parental Controls no longer blocking websites

[Guest Red Baron]

I have my kids accounts set to use the parental controls, with web sites

whitelisted. This used to work fine. I was very surprised today to find my

daughter on the M&M's website which is not in the whitelist. I checked that

the parental controls are still enabled and still set to whitelist, and that

the site was not in the whitelist - all true. But she can access any site at

all right now (with both IE and Firefox). I'm concerned that Windows Update

may have broken the parental controls. Has anyone else seen this?

[Guest t-4-2]

"Red Baron" <Red Baron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:9053714D-2BE3-4C80-A855-1C2E8F0D8FF2@microsoft.com...<span style="color:blue">

>I have my kids accounts set to use the parental controls, with web sites

> whitelisted. This used to work fine. I was very surprised today to find my

> daughter on the M&M's website which is not in the whitelist. I checked

> that

> the parental controls are still enabled and still set to whitelist, and

> that

> the site was not in the whitelist - all true. But she can access any site

> at

> all right now (with both IE and Firefox). I'm concerned that Windows

> Update

> may have broken the parental controls. Has anyone else seen this?

>

></span>

Hello Red Baron,

Since you suspect that windows update might have something to do with the

problem,We can "kill 2 birds in one stone" : --

1.) unplug your connection to internet. The reason is to narrow down which

update might be the culprit. By unplugging the connection, no more new

updates will get mixed up with the ones you want to single out.

2.) TEMPORARILY you want Vista to stop doing auto-updating until you know

for sure if the updates are ok. So, open Windows Update folder, click Change

Settings , "dot" the option that says "Check for updates but let me

choose ----", click OK.

3.) do a system restore choosing the day you KNOW parental control was

working as your restore point.

Now, check if it is back to normal. If yes, open the Windows Update folder

and find out if there are any updates waiting to be installed.( System

restore operation could kick out some updates that were installed After the

restore point date. Ex. restore point is May 22nd, any updates installed on

the 23rd, 24th and 25th would be kicked out.)

If there are updates kicked out, manually install them ONE at a time.After

each update re-installed, check the Parental Control . If ok, next update,

and so on. This way, you can prove or disprove your suspicion. It could be

something else, such as installing a new program, making settings changes

etc.

Remember, after all said and done, change Windows Update back to auto,

re-connect to internet.

Let me know of your results.

[Guest allan taylor]

vista parental

 

Same here, everything was working correctly until about a week ago. The parental controls are logging access time etc.. but not any of the websites visited and is blocking nothing. I've tried switching all the controls off and on and still no web control. I've got automatic update selected so I believe an update has caused this. I was going to email microsoft about this but it costs £42 to email a support question.

[Guest Gordon]

Re: vista parental

 

"allan taylor" wrote in message

news:2008111053942altaylor.manbeen@btopenworld.com...<span style="color:blue">

> Same here, everything was working correctly until about a week ago. The

> parental controls are logging access time etc.. but not any of the

> websites visited and is blocking nothing. I've tried switching >all the

> controls off and on and still no web control. I've got automatic update

> selected so I believe an update has caused this. I was going to email

> microsoft about this but it costs £42 to email a support >question.</span>

 

 

Same as WHAT?

 

What ever the forum is that you are posting from, it's leaching off the

Microsoft News server to make it look far busier than it really is.

Please QUOTE the post you are replying to, reply to the thread, and do NOT

change the subject line.

 

You would do us all a favour by accessing these newsgroups directly, through

a news reader and NOT via this "forum" (whatever that may be)

 

Thank you.

[Guest FromTheRafters]

Re: vista parental

 

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.p...978b7031dc71d10

 

Just in case the poster isn't able to oblige.

 

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message

news:udOW9d0QJHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue">

> "allan taylor" wrote in message

> news:2008111053942altaylor.manbeen@btopenworld.com...<span style="color:green">

>> Same here, everything was working correctly until about a week ago. The

>> parental controls are logging access time etc.. but not any of the

>> websites visited and is blocking nothing. I've tried switching >all the

>> controls off and on and still no web control. I've got automatic update

>> selected so I believe an update has caused this. I was going to email

>> microsoft about this but it costs £42 to email a support >question.</span>

>

>

> Same as WHAT?

>

> What ever the forum is that you are posting from, it's leaching off the

> Microsoft News server to make it look far busier than it really is.

> Please QUOTE the post you are replying to, reply to the thread, and do

> NOT change the subject line.

>

> You would do us all a favour by accessing these newsgroups directly,

> through a news reader and NOT via this "forum" (whatever that may be)

>

> Thank you. </span>

[Guest Gordon]

Re: vista parental

 

"FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message

news:%23QqYer0QJHA.1160@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue">

> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.p...978b7031dc71d10

>

> Just in case the poster isn't able to oblige.</span>

 

The point is, this "forum" that the OP is using (and if you look at the NNTP

posting host, we get an awful lot of orphaned posts from the same host) is

leaching off the MS news server in order to make it look a lot busier than

it is. if we could find out what forum it is, I expect you would see loads

of posts from "Guest", which would be all those people who post on the MS

news server...

[Guest Deet]

Re: vista parental

 

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:57:53 -0000, "Gordon"

<gordonbparker@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

>"FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message

>news:%23QqYer0QJHA.1160@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<span style="color:green">

>> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.p...978b7031dc71d10

>>

>> Just in case the poster isn't able to oblige.</span>

>

>The point is, this "forum" that the OP is using (and if you look at the NNTP

>posting host, we get an awful lot of orphaned posts from the same host) is

>leaching off the MS news server in order to make it look a lot busier than

>it is. if we could find out what forum it is, I expect you would see loads

>of posts from "Guest", which would be all those people who post on the MS

>news server... </span>

 

.... and the myriad of other NNTP servers in Usenet Land. MS ain't the

only one.

[Guest FromTheRafters]

Re: vista parental

 

"Gordon" <gordonbparker@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote in message

news:%23SjaU00QJHA.1028@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...<span style="color:blue">

> "FromTheRafters" <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message

> news:%23QqYer0QJHA.1160@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...<span style="color:green">

>> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.p...978b7031dc71d10

>>

>> Just in case the poster isn't able to oblige.</span>

>

> The point is, this "forum" that the OP is using (and if you look at the

> NNTP posting host, we get an awful lot of orphaned posts from the same

> host) is leaching off the MS news server in order to make it look a lot

> busier than it is. if we could find out what forum it is, I expect you

> would see loads of posts from "Guest", which would be all those people who

> post on the MS news server...</span>

 

I feel the same way about all web-to-usenet gateways - they are

ruining the newsgroup experience. I only posted the archive from

Google in case you really wanted to help the poster with parental

control issues.