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Again, there is more than one way to deal with this.
One of the ways is by putting all the proxy sites into the hosts file (something I keep up with pretty well, although there are always more new ones every week and every day). . but then I go and find them and add them to my hosts file. It's an arms race, but it can be done.
Not all of us can spend the time to do this (go looking for all the latest proxy sites), but I generally have the time, so I do it. So feel free to email me for the latest hosts file including the myspace url's and the proxy sites.
my email is s p r e c t a t o r @ y a h o o . c o m <--take out the spaces to see the email address
Another thing you can do is to modify the browser settings (ActiveX controls and javascript permissions) as I mentioned in an earlier post. If you use Microsoft's four zones to your advantage (one zone (the Trusted or 'safe" sites zone) that IS allowed to execute ActiveX controls and java scripts on your PC, and then the other three that are pretty much denied any such rights.
This will mostly make it so that even if they can find the proxy sites, they can't use them, cause the page won't work right when they get there.
Also, in order to keep the kid from going into the browser settings and changing them to get the proxy page to work, you HIDE the Security tab (in IE Properties) (which is where you change these browser settings) . .
(again, see my earlier post about how to hide the "Security" tab in the Internet Explorer properties from your kids' prying eyes, using Doug's XP Security Console, which will allow you to take away that tab so that the kids won't see it)
for more details about how to do this, or if you have any questions about how, feel free to email me . .
Another thing you can do is buy one of those monitoring programs (one that is a keylogger (captures all keystrokes, so you know what your kid typed), and some of them (like the one I use (Spector pro from spectorsoft(the program is called something like that). . ) take a screenshot (take a picture of the screen every so often (you can set the interval, so you can have it take a pic every 30 seconds, or every 15 seconds, or 45 seconds, or whatever. . and it saves it onto your hard drive, and you can replay it later like a video and see what your kid has been doing (and viewing, and who they have been talking to) on the computer . .
(some of them will even email you with an activity report showing you what your kid has been doing on the computer).
The prices for these vary, with some of the best ones being like $100 or so. . some are considerably less. . you can look up reviews of monitoring (parental monitoring) programs at download.com, or cnet.com, I'm sure. .
If you use a program like this, the kid doesn't know it's there, generally (they are all pretty stealthy), and you can find out what sites your kids are going to and if they are using a proxy, you can find out what proxy they are using and block it (if, by chance, it's one that you haven't blocked yet).
There are a couple other ways also, one of them where you modify the TCP/IP settings on your network card and basically you set it to only allow access to sites you enter (the urls you enter in those settings), and no other place on the internet can be gotten to. I haven't done this, had an IT network guy tell me he had done it on their home PC, and it works great, he says. Again, my knowledge of how to do this is spotty and I haven't tried it yet (haven't had to).
Hope this helps. Again, feel free to email me with any questions.
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