My school prides itself in blocking the command prompt.

Spoiler For the secret:

They don't know about batch files.

EDIT: My friend's mom works at the school. He stayed after in the tech department one day waiting for her. They (the tech department) didn't know what an IP address was.

My old school blocked it too. My secret, <windows key>-r, c, m, d, enter
They also had a huge list of blocked sites, but the easiest way to get around the web-filter was to use ssl >.<
Our schools system was so full of security holes I'm surprised it only went down twice in 3 years

Topics merged.

Thanks, I was just about to myself

It's old.

it may be old, but it's still there

Alberta, Canada

Ah ok well hopefully there is a way to get the data back

the best virus protection is, obviously, to never use windows or mac. this won't take care of everything, but the vast majority of viruses are exclusive to those two operating systems.

Well the only unix virii are not out in the wild, so it does take care of everything other then being stupid and leaving things open yourself with things like ssh etc.

I myself would recommend Avast from experience if you go with windows.

Haha, I'm pretty sure there was another level as well in there somewhere