Welcome To Security.Fx-Vista.Com

Computer Security Information

Home

Fooling Foolproof

<<< Back

my school used foolproof and i have seen 2 articles explaining how to take it off but i have another way not mentioned. maby my school administrators are just idiots but alot of administrators are idiots too so this might work. under win 98 (What my school used) you can go to start and shutdown. and shut it down  in MSDOS mode. it went in MSDOS mode and this was not restricted. i thought they could take shutting  down in MSDOS off but apperantly they didn't. So others proberly overlooked it too. from here you can  take it off quite easily there's propobly ways of editing the startup files or something from here but i did it  the easy way. you should be in

 

C:/Windows directory

 

type cd.. to get to C:

then

type rename sss ss

(or any name doesn't matter)

(sss was the name of the folder foolproof was in)

 

then restart.

 

when it comes up there is a black screen when it loads up saying something like cannot find file  fpvxd.vxd. Hit enter and it goes away and windows starts to load. Now it is unrestricted and you can do  whatever you want.

 

(At this point you may want to install a key logger restart with fool proof loaded and get the teacher or administrator to type in the password. Mine was so stupid i changed the background setting and said I could change it back but i you need to take foolproof off and he did. if you do that you can just type in the  password to take it off next time)

 

IF YOU DONT WANT TO GET CAUGHT. MAKE SURE YOUR RENAME THE FILE IN MY CASE SS BACK TO SSS  (OR THE ORIGINAL NAME). You can rename it in windows you dont have to go back to DOS since your  now unrestricted so next time windows loads up foolproof comes up like nothing happened.

 

By Will Bradley:

 

me and my buddies in 7th grade had the fortune of coming across win95 machines with foolproof on them. apparently whoever installed foolproof was a complete idiot (or we had an earlier version) because there was no bootlocking or partition changing on the machines- all we had to do was restart in safe mode and delete the pest. the "admin" didnt even notice.

 

Credits

 

<<< Back

 

Copyright ©2008 www.Security.Fx-Vista.Com | All rights reserved