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Iv got a major problem..(for me it is)
I have created a program which I knew it is very secured, and has been loaded in my computer for years, but for some reason, just last week, when I tried to open the program, I'v got the message saying Surf Control:Access Denied in ALL CAPS letter.. I've tried my passwd but couldnt log in...
Is there anyway that I can still access the program?I was thinking on masking my IP or changing the DNS but I really dunno how does it work...
Please help!
Your network administrator has implemented a web filter.... It's called SurfControl.... It's blocking your access because what you are accessing is considered "not good".... You can try to get around it but it is aware and regularly updates proxies, you may get lucky, but if you were on my network and I saw the proxy use I'd be looking to get you fired....... ;)
PS. I use SurfControl.... I love watching the users on the "real-time" monitor..... :D
Can you uninstall it ? If you created it surely you must know everything about it.
I have created the program at home and this is the first time that happened to me, so nobody else can fire me/..I dunno if this is hacking already or what...I just want to recover the files that I have and make it more more more secure
I may be understanding this program wrong but I see it as a web filter. How is it stopping a program from running?
Just ask your parents for access to it if it doesn't have bad content.
Actually, Surfcontrol can monitor other protocols too but it is best known for the web filtering capability. It seems to me that what your program is doing is trying to connect to the net on a specific web site and it's either browser based so you can see the "Access Denied" screen or you are presenting the responses in some other way and can see it that way.
If you are doing this from home then there are really only two possibilities. Firstly your dad is pretty well off or is into pirating software because surfcontrol isn't cheap and there are equally effective means of providing parental control for a lot less money out there. If this is the case and the site isn't offensive in any way ask dad to unblock it.
The other option I can see is either that "home" is a dormitory of some kind or your ISP is filtering you..... Again, asking to have the site unblocked will go a long way to getting what you want.
Hmmm,
Two questions:Quote:
I have created a program which I knew it is very secured, and has been loaded in my computer for years,
1. What is the program?
2. What website is it trying to access
Which leads me to ask:
How do you connect to the internet?.....direct, through a local network, through a remote network?
Remember that if you are at home and log onto a work/college network, you will be subject to the controls on that network.
I have had problems at work with "false positives" where legitimate sites caused the "keyword" filter to kick in. No problem there I just asked the admins to allow the sites.
Cheers
Its just a VC++ application for logs, have been using that program whenever I entered a shopping site to log all those transaction that I made, the time I got the problem, I was accessing Delias.com...
I have a dsl connection and I really dont have any intention in accessing any secure site, anyways, Delias.com is not secured...
PS
I live alone..theres no parental control on my PCQuote:
Firstly your dad is pretty well off or is into pirating software because surfcontrol isn't cheap and there are equally effective means of providing parental control for a lot less money out there.
I just like to know, if I got the same message like Access Denied, what can I do to get in using the same program I used before?
thanks
Is it possible that the site he is buying stuff from has put some kind of block on computers logging certain information?
I would guess that the website doesn't like your software...............some don't like anonymous proxies or anonymity software, or just don't like the browser you are using.
I don't know who delias.com are, but I deal with vendors on my terms or they go to hell............same with any other organisation for that matter............I suggest that you look for a more reasonable supplier?
Cheers
EDIT: Just been there! so there must be something about your script (program)? or we are going back to my previous suggestion of a "false positive"................you seem to be talking about home grown software?
Can you access the site and browse it if you do not start this program?
/off topic...........looks like a nice site..........it is getting on towards Christmas, and her brother is due over from Alabama fairly shortly............thankyou for the link :)............this is sticksville so importing something from the States would be cool?
This is going to sound rather silly but it sprung to mind so I will mention it......
You claim you live alone, you claim you don't have surfcontrol, you claim that you "control your own internet destiny".... OK.... Here's the silly part..... ;)
I'm wondering if delias.com isn't using SurfControl as a filter for their own web site. In reverse so to speak... It could be done and in a fashion it would work a little like URLScan but, thinking about it, it could be made to be a lot more configurable..... Maybe that is what you are encountering. You are making a request to their web site that is on their "blocked" list and SurfControl is jumping in, like it's supposed to, and resetting the connection at their server and sending you the "Access Denied" like it would if one of their users was surfing the pr0n.
OTOH, they could have it misconfigured and wrongly placed so that it interferes with normal traffic. Assuming that what your program is doing is all above board I would contact them to report it and see what they say. If they say they use SurfControl as a web filter from the outside I'd love to know.... I think it would be pretty funny.....
/me wanders over to SurfControl servers to have a play..... ;)
Would not be uncommon to use a product like suffcontrol as a "reverse proxy"Quote:
Originally posted here by Tiger Shark
I'm wondering if delias.com isn't using SurfControl as a filter for their own web site. In reverse so to speak... It could be done and in a fashion it would work a little like URLScan but, thinking about it, it could be made to be a lot more configurable..... Maybe that is what you are encountering. You are making a request to their web site that is on their "blocked" list and SurfControl is jumping in, like it's supposed to, and resetting the connection at their server and sending you the "Access Denied" like it would if one of their users was surfing the pr0n.
Used with good firewall config can produce good results with protecting
against malicious application requests.
As you said like URLScan.
I dont really know what the problem is but when I didnt use the program and access the site, I got thru it...
I guess I shouldnt use the program anymore, should I? but I dunno if It'll be more safer than not ;)
anyways, thanks
you said it was a program that you cant run, it doesnt soudns like surfcontrol webfilter which is a policy tool that defines what you can do and visit on the net.
It soudns more like Surfcontrol Enterprise threat shield which defines what programs you can run or what file types you download or store on yur computer.
The threat shield just pushes an agent to your mahcine without your knowledge when the administrator says so, it runs in the background and based on the policy defined for what you can run or download it monitirs and prevents.
I take it is a work machine and u connect gfrom home via VPN or something.
anyways sounds mor elike that than webfilter ?