My daughter has figured out how to log on after her curfew and stay on as long as she wants. She finally showed me today what she is doing. First she logs in, and gets the message that she has only 60 seconds. At that point, she opens up everything that she wants - first Firefox (3.6.3), and games such as Wizard 101 on the PC. She then opens multiple tabs in Firefox. She has Firefox set up to warn her if she tries to close it with multiple tabs. Then she logs off the computer. Well, when it tries to close Firefox, she gets the warning about multiple tabs, chooses Cancel, and at that point, the logoff process stops, and Firefox stays open. She can then stay on as long as she wants. The message that I get is that she signed in during curfew hours - the same kind of message I'd get if I had bypassed the curfew and allowed her to log on. We are running version Norton Safety Minder 1.2.2.2.
She has now done this several times.
She has also shown me how she can get on multiple times after curfew simply by logging off after the 3 chances of 1 minute. She then gets to start all over again with her limited time. However now that she's figured out how to bypass the time, she's no longer doing this.
The only choice I have now is to use the ability to restrict time within Windows XP. I don't like to do that because it doesn't always work correctly, and it doesn't allow me to give her time after her curfew if I want to. But since she's figured out how to totally bypass the curfew, NSM isn't doing me much good right now!
My daughter has figured out how to log on after her curfew and stay on as long as she wants. She finally showed me today what she is doing. First she logs in, and gets the message that she has only 60 seconds. At that point, she opens up everything that she wants - first Firefox (3.6.3), and games such as Wizard 101 on the PC. She then opens multiple tabs in Firefox. She has Firefox set up to warn her if she tries to close it with multiple tabs. Then she logs off the computer. Well, when it tries to close Firefox, she gets the warning about multiple tabs, chooses Cancel, and at that point, the logoff process stops, and Firefox stays open. She can then stay on as long as she wants. The message that I get is that she signed in during curfew hours - the same kind of message I'd get if I had bypassed the curfew and allowed her to log on. We are running version Norton Safety Minder 1.2.2.2.
She has now done this several times.
She has also shown me how she can get on multiple times after curfew simply by logging off after the 3 chances of 1 minute. She then gets to start all over again with her limited time. However now that she's figured out how to bypass the time, she's no longer doing this.
The only choice I have now is to use the ability to restrict time within Windows XP. I don't like to do that because it doesn't always work correctly, and it doesn't allow me to give her time after her curfew if I want to. But since she's figured out how to totally bypass the curfew, NSM isn't doing me much good right now!
I just want to let you know that my daughter is still able to bypass the curfew restriction using this method. Just wondering if there's any progress on fixing it.
What I've had to do is use the Windows XP net user command to restrict her login times in order to prevent her from getting on the computer when she's not supposed to. I've had trouble in the past with that setting locking the account completely, so I don't like to use it, but since she's able to bypass your curfew setting, I have no other choice.
Please make sure you have the latest version of Safety Minder Version 2.0.0.XX on the PC (You can determine this by right clicking on the Norton Safety Minder icon in the System tray and selecting About Norton Safety Minder). If you don't have the version, please download the latest Norton Safety Minder online.
Hi - I just noticed on my sons pc that the message came up last night at 10pm that he tried to sign in and was automatically locked as it should. However, I also saw in the activity log that he went onto an allowable site at 10:04. How can this happen? Did you see the same thing? thanks
Do you see any activities recorded after 10:04? After a kid reaches his/her time limit, the child is allowed to stay on the PC for a few extra minutes to save whatever he or she was doing. It's possible you see some activities get recorded a few minutes after the allowed time.