Restrictions on Internet Content

[joker08]

My wife received a laptop from work, when she tries to access certain websites, for example, gmail, it doesnt work gets a screen saying "restricted", Google however still works.
Connect to her work VPN everything works, well mostly everything works. I am wondering how is such a restriction possible.
I can see there is a custom DNS set when I click on connection properties, which ofcourse we cannot change.
Is it the DNS that's doing the filtering or is there anything else I can check ?
I want to setup something similar on my network.

 

[gregmcc]

It's probably some agent on the device that's doing the blocking.

 

[WAslayer]

Yes, DNS proxy agent of some kind.. any domain not allowed would get returned a DNS response to head to the website to say this is restricted..

 

[joker08]

Is there any ways of bypassing such a thing ? We only have limited access on this laptop.

 

[joker08]

Cant even get into connection settings on edge or good chrome

 

[gregmcc]

Is there any ways of bypassing such a thing ? We only have limited access on this laptop.

It's there for a reason. Laptop is locked down to stop users fiddling.

 

[joker08]

It's there for a reason. Laptop is locked down to stop users fiddling.

I know that, what I want to find out is if there is a fix around it.

 

[gregmcc]

Possibly but if you start messing around with the laptop to start bypassing security controls put in place you are likely to get your wife fired.

 

[LandyMan]

Possibly but if you start messing around with the laptop to start bypassing security controls put in place you are likely to get your wife fired.

This

 

[WollieVerstege]

I know that, what I want to find out is if there is a fix around it.

If someone did that to one of my company laptops, it would definitely be a fireable offense. It is even stipulated in the document you have to sign when you take possession.

 

[AstroTurf]

My wife received a laptop from work, when she tries to access certain websites, for example, gmail, it doesnt work gets a screen saying "restricted", Google however still works.
Connect to her work VPN everything works, well mostly everything works. I am wondering how is such a restriction possible.
I can see there is a custom DNS set when I click on connection properties, which ofcourse we cannot change.
Is it the DNS that's doing the filtering or is there anything else I can check ?
I want to setup something similar on my network.

Get your wife her own personal laptop, if they want you to vpn into their network to use gmail it means they want to monitor what she is doing on gmail.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Quite likely the black page tells you ECS elf what software is being used.

If not post it here and someone can likely identify it.

 

[WalkWithMe]

This is a company resource with their lockdown policy.
If you change settings, expect a discipline hearing

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

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[ponder]

I know that, what I want to find out is if there is a fix around it.

It's not your property, leave it alone. Do you really want to risk getting your wife fired?

 

[joker08]

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USB drives are disabled

 

[gregmcc]

Good - at least security are doing their job.

 

[Illegal Allien]

Is there any ways of bypassing such a thing ? We only have limited access on this laptop.

There are ways, but will get your wife's employment terminated. Read through the IT usage policy before doing anything

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

USB drives are disabled

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or DVD disabled as well?

if they're this paranoid I'd be inclined to agree with others here: best to leave it be

 

[Snyper564]

We have supreme levels of security on our work laptops from not being able to connect a flash disk to download a single file to gmail blocking file uploads - how its done I dont know I just know dont do anything not work related on it.

Oh yes all sites like youtube/facebook etc blocked too