Getting behind Faronics "Insight"

[Whuggy]

Hello,
Today the IT supporter at my school installed "Insight" on some of our computers (and plans to do it on all of them).

Insight is a program from Faronics that makes the teacher able to control the students computer. Completely. And that pisses me off. They can watch me in the lessons and in my spare time. Another reason I want to get rid of it is that the other students are able to install the "teacher" program and do exactly the same to their mates.

Anyway, I want to hear if anyone know about this, or just can tell me anything. I have been searching the web a bit and couldn't find anything.

Another program of Faronics is Deep Freeze. It deep freezes the C drive and restores it every time you restart the computer, so that if you install anything on it it will disappear when you reboot. A program to get rid of this is Un Deep Freezer, but I'm not able to find program like that for Insight.

Any help is appreciated and if someone have a solution, I would be very happy.

Thanks a lot in advance,
Whuggy/pissed off student :icon_scra

[thevelocityofc]

ok..to disable insight student..you need to go into the services menu..and disable the insight student service, hit APPLY TWICE...then hit ok....exit out of the services window and hit ctrl alt delete...then you can easly go into the task manager to end the STUDENT.exe process...its fairly simple.....if you need an administrator password to get into the services menu send me a pm and i'll tell you how to get it



NOTE********: when you disable this...your computer will NOT show up on the teachers screen...you can also get into A LOT of trouble with certain school districts, they reserve the right to suspend or expel for altering computer software and stability....:icon_salu good luck

[s7ormx]

how do u open the services menu?

[HelenaP]

how do u open the services menu?

Click--> "Start" then --> "Run"--> then type "msconfig" (without quottations). "Services" tab should be the second from the right.

[mountain_rage]

Seems like regular school security to me. What are you doing on school computers that requires circumvention? I'm just asking because I don't see the issue with the security implementation. Unless you're doing something you know you shouldn't, which they could find anyway with their logs, you don't need to block it. The only valid reason would be because, according to you, they didn't secure the admin half of the program, allowing anyone to use it. But I'd hope that would be fixed before a roll out. Maybe your unaware, but the program just makes it easier to see what you are doing. In theory that could of been done at a network level and you would of never known. My point is schools need to be schools, if you want privacy its not the place for it.

When I was in high school I was in the tech class and my teacher did nothing to secure the labs computers. In fact he even went so far to remove it from the Linux server. It was ridiculous, the amount of crap we always had to fix because of the lack of security. Security keeps morons from rendering the computer unusable, making sure everyone can use it appropriately.

Yes I do realize its an old post, but the new poster theoretically has the same or similar issue.

[s7ormx]

ok.. i did that and it didn't work
anything im doing wrong?
when i go to end the process, it says "declined" or something like that

[mountain_rage]

That would be because your school is smart and blocked administrative privileges. Theres probably a way around it, but if your that hard up you can do your own research. Consider it homework.

Depending on how the machines are secured it may be more work then its worth.

[Tic3]

I'm with Mountain Rage on this one. It's the school's computer. If you want privacy, wait until you get home and use your own computer.

The school has every right to protect their equipment and to monitor what someone is doing on it.

[override777]

hey im up for the challange :)
ive been triing to get around it for a while now
were should i start studing?

[mountain_rage]

If you don't know where to start then you have no hope in hell.

[devitos]

ok..to disable insight student..you need to go into the services menu..and disable the insight student service, hit APPLY TWICE...then hit ok....exit out of the services window and hit ctrl alt delete...then you can easly go into the task manager to end the STUDENT.exe process...its fairly simple.....if you need an administrator password to get into the services menu send me a pm and i'll tell you how to get it



NOTE********: when you disable this...your computer will NOT show up on the teachers screen...you can also get into A LOT of trouble with certain school districts, they reserve the right to suspend or expel for altering computer software and stability....:icon_salu good luck

Hey i wanna know how to find the admin password on a vista computer.. can u email me with how to do it