Cutting Off Network Access At A Specific Time - Help

[thefourthwall]

Disclaimer/Apology: If posted in wrong forum, please advise.

Configured Zone Alarm security suite on a friend's home pc whose OS is Win XP Home (no comments necessary - I wouldn't use it myself either).

He wanted 'expert rules' setup to deny network access from time A to time B.

And that was no problem ... until his daughter realized she could keep her AIM away message up and slide right past Zone Alarm's rules...

With time-based 'expert rules' Zone Alarm prevents _new_ connections from being made but doesn't "chop" existing connections ... and therein lies the problem.

I created a Scheduled Task that runs a .cmd file that stops the dhcp service but that doesn't seem to work well for the limited user accounts ...

1. Can I use AT commands in Windows XP home that work non-interactively when a limited user is logged in? If so, please advise ...

2. If I cannot use AT commands, please suggest a better method -- I am open to all good ideas.

Thanks in advance,

-thefourthwall

 

[dk87]

Yes, you can use an AT command without being logged in. So maybe at Time A just do ipconfig /release and at time b do ipconfig /renew. Check to make sure the machine does not auto-renew. If it does you may need to use WMI and run a registry script.