HOW TO STOP SCHOOL FROM WATCHING ME

[SirFlamenco]

Recently (today), I have received a message from chrome saying somebody is watching my yahoo historic, and then were informing me it was a possible hacker. I know it's probably not one, but I can conclude my school is checking our historic from distance when we are on their wifi. That's bad if I want to check things that are not allowed. So is there anyway to remove potential spyware from my pc, or to at least find them in order to destroy them? I am using the PC they give to each students, which probably means they installed something in my computer before giving it to us.

[imreloadin]

4 minutes ago, SirFlamenco said:

Recently (today), I have received a message from chrome saying somebody is watching my yahoo historic, and then were informing me it was a possible hacker. I know it's probably not one, but I can conclude my school is checking our historic from distance when we are on their wifi. That's bad if I want to check things that are not allowed. So is there anyway to remove potential spyware from my pc, or to at least find them in order to destroy them? I am using the PC they give to each students, which probably means they installed something in my computer before giving it to us.

Use a VPN

[Enderman]

First of all, you should stop checking things that are not allowed if you are on a school owned computer. Use your own.

 

Second, you can clean install windows to remove any spyware, but that's probably against the rules too.

 

And third, yes, if you use the school wifi they can know what sites you visit, you can prevent this by using a free VPN.

[glitchmaster0001]

one simple answer TOR or VPN. 

[ARikozuM]

Write to your local congressman.

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Just now, ARikozuM said:

Write to your local congressman.

Does anyone actually do that anymore lol?

[glitchmaster0001]

8 minutes ago, Enderman said:

First of all, you should stop checking things that are not allowed if you are on a school owned computer. Use your own.

 

Second, you can clean install windows to remove any spyware, but that's probably against the rules too.

 

And third, yes, if you use the school wifi they can know what sites you visit, you can prevent this by using a free VPN.

Using a custom made bootable windows thumb drive is better 

13 minutes ago, SirFlamenco said:

Recently (today), I have received a message from chrome saying somebody is watching my yahoo historic, and then were informing me it was a possible hacker. I know it's probably not one, but I can conclude my school is checking our historic from distance when we are on their wifi. That's bad if I want to check things that are not allowed. So is there anyway to remove potential spyware from my pc, or to at least find them in order to destroy them? I am using the PC they give to each students, which probably means they installed something in my computer before giving it to us.

another idea is to get a cheap 32GB, 64GB or even 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive and install windows 10 on it then install TOR and a VPN on it then whenever you want to use a school PC you plug the USB drive in then boot the PC from the USB drive and volla, you can borrow a PC and when your done power it off and yank out the flash drive then the next person who uses the PC it will boot back to the school's hard drive on the PC with their install of windows along with whatever else is on their domain 

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

 

another idea is to get a cheap 32GB, 64GB or even 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive and install windows 10 on it then install TOR and a VPN on it then whenever you want to use a school PC you plug the USB drive in then boot the PC from the USB drive and volla, you can borrow a PC and when your done power it off and yank out the flash drive then the next person who uses the PC it will boot back to the school's hard drive on the PC with their install of windows along with whatever else is on their domain 

You need an enterprise key to put a portable edition windows 10 on a USB drive. Those are not cheap.

[ker2015]

14 minutes ago, SirFlamenco said:

Recently (today), I have received a message from chrome saying somebody is watching my yahoo historic, and then were informing me it was a possible hacker. I know it's probably not one, but I can conclude my school is checking our historic from distance when we are on their wifi. That's bad if I want to check things that are not allowed. So is there anyway to remove potential spyware from my pc, or to at least find them in order to destroy them? I am using the PC they give to each students, which probably means they installed something in my computer before giving it to us.

You could use a VPN, this will disguise your IP. You could also use DuckDuckGo which is a very good search engine that doesn't let companies watch your browser. Malware Bytes is good for scanning for spyware/malware. You should also try CCleaner to clear your cache. If you're really desperate you could use Tor, but I don't really recommend that.

[HarryNyquist]

Keep in mind that if they're monitoring your internet traffic then they could very well also realize you're using a VPN, which in my experience, nets much more dire consequences.

[ImperialSteele]

Using a live USB with Linux on it is a safe way to get around that, you don't have to know much about Linux just how to click the Firefox button. And unlike wiping your PC there's no trace after you switch back to Windows. If you're savvy enough, you can install the Linux version to a flashdrive and be able to download and run programs if you know Linux.

 

PS. VPNs can be seen by the network admins (while your at school) since all traffic goes out of their network the same way.

[desertcomputer]

Keep in mind, if you leasing the laptop from the school and sign the contract thing you can't really do anything. Reinstall windows which will remove all related school bootwares or you can disable the programs if you know what program they are using. If you have bios access just reinstall windows and just connect to their domains/wifi. 

[Lost Away]

Here is a link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals,

you can try using Process Explorer and AutoRuns, be sure to use the virus total scanning option to highlight some questionable processes. Some of the results may be false positives though.

Some schools use a custom DNS to filter out sites, change it to Google, Comodo, OpenDNS.

[SirFlamenco]

4 hours ago, Lost Away said:

Here is a link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals,

you can try using Process Explorer and AutoRuns, be sure to use the virus total scanning option to highlight some questionable processes. Some of the results may be false positives though.

Some schools use a custom DNS to filter out sites, change it to Google, Comodo, OpenDNS.

I opened AutoRuns and saw some weird things going on. What should I specifically look for? I can provide screenshots if necessary. They use SOPHOS, btw.

23 hours ago, Enderman said:

First of all, you should stop checking things that are not allowed if you are on a school owned computer. Use your own.

 

Second, you can clean install windows to remove any spyware, but that's probably against the rules too.

 

And third, yes, if you use the school wifi they can know what sites you visit, you can prevent this by using a free VPN.

I don't think reastalling windows is against rules, but it's not only about the pc, it's also about the wifi. BUT yeah, I think they installed something in my pc too, and I am considering what you proposed, if it's not too complicated. I saw some VPN videos, and it takes pretty crazy long times to configure it, also when you think I will be obliged to  do that each time. Plus, I think they still know that somebody is using internet from their school and are able to retrace me, if they give it a bit of volonty. Oh, and I forgot to say I dont wanna spend money just to go on internet, so it's probably gonna give me some trash VPN servers that is just good at spying me.

 

[Enderman]

20 minutes ago, SirFlamenco said:

I opened AutoRuns and saw some weird things going on. What should I specifically look for? I can provide screenshots if necessary. They use SOPHOS, btw.

I don't think reastalling windows is against rules, but it's not only about the pc, it's also about the wifi. BUT yeah, I think they installed something in my pc too, and I am considering what you proposed, if it's not too complicated. I saw some VPN videos, and it takes pretty crazy long times to configure it, also when you think I will be obliged to  do that each time. Plus, I think they still know that somebody is using internet from their school and are able to retrace me, if they give it a bit of volonty. Oh, and I forgot to say I dont wanna spend money just to go on internet, so it's probably gonna give me some trash VPN servers that is just good at spying me.

 

Reinstalling an operating system to bypass school security measures is definitely against the rules.

[SirFlamenco]

6 hours ago, Enderman said:

Reinstalling an operating system to bypass school security measures is definitely against the rules.

Well, anyways, I can't reinstall windows because I have a lot of documents in it and if I reinstall it while saving the files the spywares are still gonna be there.

[BuckGup]

On 9/14/2016 at 11:30 AM, glitchmaster0001 said:

one simple answer TOR or VPN. 

Or both

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, SirFlamenco said:

Well, anyways, I can't reinstall windows because I have a lot of documents in it and if I reinstall it while saving the files the spywares are still gonna be there.

You know that documents =/= spyware right?

You can copy your documents to another place and the spyware/monitoring programs will not be copied over.

The only way programs can be copied over is by doing a clone/migration.

[Lost Away]

On 15/09/2016 at 8:39 PM, SirFlamenco said:

I opened AutoRuns and saw some weird things going on. What should I specifically look for? I can provide screenshots if necessary. They use SOPHOS, btw.

What uses SOPHOS?

I am using Linux dominantly so I may be a bit rusty.

In AutoRuns under the logon tab look for entries related to software you didn't install, or isn't necessary. From the menu under the options tab there should be an entry on virustotal check both its suboptions and it should submit hashes to be checked and mark some of the suspicious processes and/or dlls.

Also check the location of the file before disabling it; those in "C:\Windows" may be safe to remove as those in "C:\Windows\System32" or Wow64 or sth should be seen as handled with much caution.

Concerning VPNs I used OpenVPN client and connected through VPNbook (it's a free VPN provider with some paid options if you want) It is slow as the traffic through tends to be a lot. Try whoer.net to see if your VPN is actually masking your IP and rerouting your DNS, WebRTC isn't your friend. Whoer may show your IP is blacklisted but it's mostly because of people using the VPN with malicious intent.

[Arty]

On 9/14/2016 at 0:40 PM, Enderman said:

You need an enterprise key to put a portable edition windows 10 on a USB drive. Those are not cheap.

linux distro

[SecGuy]

If you are using the PC that they provide there is nothing you can or should do.  I would not use that PC other than school work then.  Because I use my own laptop, and if they spy on me then they can screw off, because it's my laptop and they could just block me from the internet.  

 

But, when you use the school's computer which yes, probably has got a keylogger and spyware on it.  But it's their computer, and they give it you with the understanding that you use it for school work. I highly suggest bringing your own computer to school and using that if you don't want to be spied on. 

 

You will never be safe on someone else's laptop. If you don't have full access to the hardware and software then you cannot protect it.  And you should not use it for private browsing. 

[8uhbbhu8]

On 9/14/2016 at 11:25 AM, SirFlamenco said:

Recently (today), I have received a message from chrome saying somebody is watching my yahoo historic, and then were informing me it was a possible hacker. I know it's probably not one, but I can conclude my school is checking our historic from distance when we are on their wifi. That's bad if I want to check things that are not allowed. So is there anyway to remove potential spyware from my pc, or to at least find them in order to destroy them? I am using the PC they give to each students, which probably means they installed something in my computer before giving it to us.

Tor, vpn, Run an OS off a USB or external HD

[Ringthane]

All of you telling this guy how to get around this should probably stop, IMO.  If he does this now, when he actually gets a job and tries this, he'll get fired.  There's probably pretty stiff penalties at the school as well.

 

Just use the school computer for school stuff and your own personal one for your stuff. 

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On 15/09/2016 at 2:25 AM, SirFlamenco said:

Recently (today), I have received a message from chrome saying somebody is watching my yahoo historic, and then were informing me it was a possible hacker. I know it's probably not one, but I can conclude my school is checking our historic from distance when we are on their wifi. That's bad if I want to check things that are not allowed. So is there anyway to remove potential spyware from my pc, or to at least find them in order to destroy them? I am using the PC they give to each students, which probably means they installed something in my computer before giving it to us.

I run a virtual machine with TOR.

Free Windows 8.1: https://catalog.imagine.microsoft.com/en-us/Catalog/Product/82

Virtual Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

TOR: https://www.torproject.org/download/download-easy.html.en

[Whaler_99]

I am locking this thread due to the discussion type.

 

To note - any medium supplied by a school, or business for that matter, is their property and such, they have every legal right to install whatever monitoring software they like on it and report everything you do.

In addition, equipment provided to minors must have the capabilities to track and block them from going to various types of sites, etc. regardless of the location.

 

The discussion of trying to get around or otherwise avoid the legitimate monitoring of your activity is akin to hacking and as such, this type of discussion will not be allowed.