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So, I keep hearing all of these great things about windows vista's security features? Sounds pretty cool and all, but I don't look into it much. Apparently, it is the ultimate defense in securing your computer or something like that. Unfortunately, you don't exactly like it as much whenever it is turned against you.

My older half-brother has been staying with us every couple of nights, camping out on the couch. Last night, he supposedly looked at, well, dirty images while everyone else was asleep. He made the rookie mistake of not deleting the cookies, history, etc. that showed that he was on there and so my mom noticed them the next morning (he had even stupidly bookmarked one of the sites).

To prevent this, my mom thought she'd do a blanket ban of 99% of the internet on every user. How did she do this you say? By utilizing Windows Vista's amazing security! She first took everyone off of administrator status except her user. Next, she password protected her user (I tried about twenty different possibilities before realizing that it was probably case sensitive, and I cba to try their possibilities). Then, she put the parental controls on every other user to the highest possible setting, which includes the internet.

I didn't realize anything had been tampered with until this morning, when google searches kept coming up with "Windows Parental Control has blocked this website". I started to try even simple things, like food. I typed in "Apple", it worked. I typed in "Cheese", and to my surprise, it didn't work! Is there some vulgar site that comes up when you google cheese, but not apple?

Being a little frustrated at how dumb some of the stuff it was blocking was, I began searching for hacks and bypasses. Well, similar to searching those things on a school computer, those were blocked too. I walked over to the television and picked up a PS3 controller. I began searching on the PS3 for bypasses and hacks. I found a couple in command prompt and using the "control userpasswords2" secret, but they only work if you are also an administrator. I found a ton for windows XP and earlier operating systems, but none that worked for windows vista without downloading programs, which I can't because first of all it is blocked, and second of all because I was unfamiliar with the programs and the sites they were on.

In short, Windows Vista's Security, combined with my mom's rage blanket ban of almost all of the internet (most of neo isn't blocked, but game/movie/book profiles and their tabs won't load), has really made me dislike Vista. Any questions? :)