OT How did that happen?

Just been told by some parent that there was some porn suddenly popped up on
the school PC's today (wet playtime).
The kids were playing games on the bbc website when a rather candid pic of a
lady appeared.

Now I know that these things aren't perfect, and I've now spyware cleaned
the machine but we've never
had a problem before as we use an externally filtered server. This is the
first time this has happened in 5 years!

BTW its out policy to have an adult in the room when on the internet.
How can I now assure parents and staff that the computers are safe to use?
To say I'm pissed off is an understatement. I've spent the last 5years
installing and building confidence
in these as a learning tool and this incident could really spell the end of
any sort of freedom of use.

Sorry for the rant.

 

What's the fucking problem? they need to learn about everything.

 

Well I'm all for them learning by experience and not wrapping them up in
cotton wool.
However pictures of naked women suddenly popping up on a 7 year olds screen
pisses me off a bit.

 

Yeah, so would I be if I hadn't kept my private porn collection properly
hidden.

 

Well if it was, at least I'd know what to do about it.
As it stands it could happen again at any time.

 

Sounds to me like the windows messenger port being left open, and
allowing a pop up?

What OS are these running?

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Linger said:

You can't - they aren't safe - however you have a responsible person in
the room monitoring and assisting at all times.

That's much more than most of them have at home, and about as much as
you can do.

It shouldn't - unless the parents are all fuckwits.

 

OK, what's that then? There is no messenger thingys on them AFAIK

Win 98

 

*DING*

 

It would probably only take one.

 

Gunga Dan said:

In which case you expel their fuckwitted child and carry on as before.

 

Is "Wet Playtime" one of those films unsuitable for kiddies?

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Linger said:

Block port 135.

Windows messenger isn't the same as MSN messenger.

Winows messenger is used to send admin alerts to clients to "save your
shit cos we're cutting you off in five minutes" sort of thing and has
been used as an exploit for sending spam, amongst other things.

Google is your friend.

HTH

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Whinging Courier said:

Ooops, didn't get that quite right, old boy. It's the port for net send
and stuff so that's how the buggers are doing it (if that's what they're
doing at all)

 

<cane>

Or downloaded for free.

</cane>

 

Ta, at least I can phone the ISP with some ideas.
I have no evidence as I cleaned everything in a panic that it would happen
in my afternoon lesson.

 

If only

 

The kids shut it down quickly and told their parents when they got home.
I'll grill the adult tomorrow. After all if they can't monitor it then it'll
have to go off.

 

I wondered how long that one would take.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Linger said:

You wouldn't, unless it's in the event viewer somewhere?

TBPH, my knowledge of all this stuff is rusty at best, it's been a long
while since I "dabbled" ;-)

I'd test it with something like 'net send 127.0.0.1 hello' or something
but then I don't want to be teaching my Grandmother how to suck eggs

Good lucksy