Re: Content Advisor

From: Ned Flanders (nedfla@hotmail.com)
Date: 06/24/02 

From: "Ned Flanders" <nedfla@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:32:38 -0500

MS won't advertise the fact that this is ridiculously simple to defeat. On
IE 5.5 SP2,

Stop all running instances of IE
Open up Regedit
Navigate to the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Rating
s\.Default

Double-click the DWORD value called "Enabled"
Set value to 0
(for clarity, that's a zero, not the letter o)
click OK.

Start up IE. Navigate wherever you like.
Note that you can't turn it back on again unless you know the password. It
took me all of 2-1/2 minutes to find the on-off switch location though so I
imagine I could find the password area pretty quickly if needed.

hth
Curtis (AKA "Ned")

"Sarah" <sjswingle@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:fdf501c21b9f$01249580$a5e62ecf@tkmsftngxa07...
> I inherited a used computer from the main office. Someone
> enabled the content advisor so that a supervisor password
> is required to see any web page. Now, no one knows what
> that password is. I've searched the microsoft web site
> (using a different computer!) and have come up with
> nothing. Does anyone know how to disable this without
> knowing the password???
> Thanks.

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