These instructions will not work with Cyber Patrol for the Macintosh, or with the proxy server version of Cyber Patrol. To make sure your computer has Cyber Patrol installed on it, see our page about how to determine which blocking software is installed on your computer. |
(To disable Cyber Patrol for the Macintosh, click here. Otherwise, to disable Cyber Patrol for Windows, keep reading.)
Recommended method (see also a list of
alternate methods):
Download a program called CPCrack
here. If you run this
program on a machine with Cyber Patrol installed, it will
display the Cyber Patrol headquarters password on your screen.
(Please note that CPCrack will not work with versions of Cyber
Patrol downloaded after November 1998; at that point, Cyber Patrol
changed the encryption scheme for their passwords so that CPCrack
would no longer work with their program. We are working on a
version that also works with the newer version of Cyber Patrol.)
Once you have obtained the password, log in to Cyber Patrol by clicking on the Cyber Patrol icon on the taskbar, and entering your password for the HQ password. With Cyber Patrol open, go to File and pick Deputy Bypass. The Cyber Patrol icon on the taskbar will now be marked with a red X to indicate that Cyber Patrol has been disabled. To re-enable Cyber Patrol, go to File and select Deputy Bypass again (which should now have a check mark next to it) to turn off the bypass.
If you're interested in how the Cyber Patrol password cracker works, you can read the explanation of how Cyber Patrol encrypts the master password, and how CPCrack reverses the decryption to recover it.
Alternate methods
Method 1
Follow these instructions to configure Cyber Patrol so that it will
still be run but not block anything. cyber.bin and
cyber.not are the files that store the list of sites that
Cyber Patrol blocks; these steps replace those lists with an empty
list.
This is an ideal solution you need uncensored Internet access while
someone is looking over your shoulder,
because the Cyber Patrol icon will remain on the taskbar
to make it appear that it is still running. In fact, it is
still running -- the only difference is that its list of blocked
sites has been reduced to zero.
Method 2
Follow these instructions to permanently un-install Cyber
Patrol from your machine:
Cyber Patrol will now be disabled on your computer. Reverse all
of the steps above to re-enable it.
C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\
load=c:\patrol\cp.exe ic.exe
with just
load=
c:\windows\win.ini
Select "Properties" and check the box for
"read-only".
c:\windows\system\system.drv
Select "Properties", and un-check the boxes for
"hidden", "system" and "read-only".
c:\windows\system.386
Select "Properties", and un-check the boxes for
"hidden", "system" and "read-only".
Run Regedit (go to the Start Menu, select "Run...", and
type "regedit,exe"). Moving around in RegEdit is a lot like
moving around in Windows Explorer; you can think of "values"
as being files, and think of "keys" as being folders, with sub-keys
stored inside other keys, etc. Find these two values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
called "FltProcess"; the value will be labeled "msinet.exe". Delete
this value by clicking "FltProcess" and hitting Delete.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
also called "FltProcess" and
also labeled "msinet.exe". Delete that
"FltProcess" too.
c:\windows\system\ directory and type:
move system.drv system.bak
move ..\system.386 system.drv
Method 3
Click here for method 3.
These instructions were mailed
in by Jack Harris -- we're not sure if they work, but try them
out, and if it works for you, send us an e-mail and let us
know how it went!