Parental controls webfilterproxyd running away

My daughters Macbook has started overheating and the internet connection almost grinds to a halt (it seems to have started a month or so ago and got a bit worse since). On investigation i found under all process in the activity monitor that webfilterproxyd was making the cpu run at 75% and more. I tried quitting the process and restarting, but the only way i have been able to get the laptop sorted is to stop parental controls entirely. Not something i am keen on.
Does anyone know if this a known issue and what can be done to fix it?
The laptop is running all latest updates etc - i think it is 10.8.2. Mainly used for internet usage and iMovie editing.
Thanks

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Parental Controls Have Blown Away My iChat

Thinking my teenager was too much involved with chatting when he would do better with homework, I set up an account called homework, which cut out all iChat (no buddies acceptable) and limited his Safari'ing. But, right away -- in our family account -- all the buddies went gray and no chatting was possible, not for my son, not for anyone! And I seem unable to call them back. Turning off parental controls seems unproductive.
Turned on parental controls for one account, lost iChat universally. HOW CAN I GET ICHAT BACK? (Yes, I'd like to keep my Homework account working, but I'll give it up if absolutely necessary)
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Hi Dialoguy,
Do you have your Mac set up that the Family acount is also a Non Admin Account ?
AT THIS STAGE DO NOT DELETE THE HOMEWORK ACCOUNT
Is the AIM or .mac account he signs in with in Homework the same one used in the Family account ?
Would it be even if it worked ? (had some allowed Buddies)
I have seen one occassion when Parental Controls were not to the perosons liking and they deleted the whole Mac USer Account without turning Off Parental Controls which caused them endless problems.
There was a recent Post about the fact that Jabber accounts can not be blocked (and there are AIM Transports out there to get around any AIM name blocks).
EDIT to that info. iChat help says Jabber and Bonjour is disabled at that time.
If the Family account is not the Mac's Admin acount account I would log on as the Admin account and try turning Parental Controls off there.
I would also check that the Family account if a standard one does not show itself to have Parental controls.
The documentation in iChat help states it is for one Mac User account at a time.
Quote
Using Parental Controls with iChat
If you are using Mac OS X v10.4 or later, and have your computer set up with other, nonadministrator user accounts, you can control who the other users of the computer can chat with. Using Parental Controls you can add only the buddies you want the other user to chat with.
To add buddies to other users' parental controls:
1. Open System Preferences and click Accounts.
2. Select a user account and then click Parental Controls.
3. Select the iChat checkbox and then click Configure.
4. Click the Add button and select a buddy from the list.
5. If there are no buddies in the list, click New Person and enter the buddy's .Mac account or AIM screen name.
Only the buddies you add will be available for chats.
Parental Controls work only with AIM buddies. If you use Parental Controls, local buddies and Jabber buddies will not be available to the user you set up with Parental Controls.
See also
security.
I can replicate this with a test Mac User account using the same iChat name and Fast User Switching.
Closing IChat and restarting does not help.
The Test account does not have Multiple Logins allowed at present.
More details to follow
2:06 PM Friday; February 17, 2006

Parental Controls Always Allow App issue with Blender app (3d modeling app)

To whom this may concern,
I have a 3D modeling app called blender. I have installed it on my mac os running on lion (os 10.7) currently.
What I want to do. Always run this app on an account that has parental controls set up on my mac. The blender app would be a part of the allowed apps for the account.
Here's where I have my problem:
I have set it up to run on an account that has parental controls set up.
The problem I keep running in to is that every time I try to run blender I receive a popup window that says the app is not allowed and gives me three options: always allow, allow once, or okay (and close without trying to open).
Everytime I try to click always allow and enter my password, the process just repeats the next time I open the app. This make me believe that perhaps there is some sort of executable that the blender app uses before starting that the parental controls is stopping and even when I allow blender to start, there is something else not being allowed through. Any ideas on how I can work around this (obviously I want to keep parental controls on to prevent access to other apps)?
I'm not overly computer savvy but I can give some more info as requested if my question needs further explanation/documentation
I guess the best way to see the problem for yourself is to download blender and try using it on an account with parental controls, heh heh.
This is more of an annoyance having to enter the passcode everytime I want to use this wonderful app.
Thanks for any help.

Solution:
I updated to OSX Mavericks and the parental controls issue went away for Blender.
Hurray!

Best parent controls for iPads and iMac running on BT Home Hub

Hi,
Despite the great sounds coming from the big ISPs about parental controls, they're determined to make a really simple concept absolutely impossible.
Firstly, I'm not trying to lock-down my family's access to the net, but I have two boys aged around ten, and being boys they're inquisitive, so are probably getting closer to stumbling across some seriously dodgy content... And I want to try to prevent that... It should not be hard. If I could limit the times they were online, just if browsing gets out of hand (they're kids remember) that would be a handy option as well.
So on to the technical details... We have a standard BT broadband account that comes into a new BT Home Hub. This is currently our WiFi point. We run a laptop, two ipads, iphones and an ipod touch on Wifi, and have a desktop ethernet'd to the Home Hub. BT offer a downlaodable Family Protection package that allows user accounts to be configured, but this does not appear to work on an iPad or Touch.
Very shortly, we're about to retire the PCs from family life and install an iMac. So we're getting into a properly Mac environment. I was also considering installing a Time Capsule for back-ups and had considered stringing this in series on the Home Hub, then networking all of the Apple devices off of the Time Capsule.
Ideally, the controls would be at a us level, or at least by device. I've come across some App options, but this seems like an unecessary layer of proprietary complexity.
So how Do we deploy parental controls? The simplest option, that BT have failed to realise, would be a network solution that filters everything coming into the house and stops it before it even hits the Home Hub - but that doesn't appear to be an option.
So what options do we have? Any ideas? I had heard suggestions that I could manage user control via the Time Capsule, but that's proving hard to confirm.
Happy to supply any further information to help with this query.
In summary, how do I stop **** getting onto my boys' iPads/Touchs... Should be simple????
Cheers, Mombee.

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When that account is running and attempt to open firefox a dialog box appears saying the account does not have permission to run firefox software update.
Even if I (root/ parental user) choose the option in the dialog box to always allow access and properly enter my password, when I again click on firefox to launch I get the same message.

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*http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
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Wtih Parental Controls on, need to allow run application from CD

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I have restricted my sons access/login using the parental controls and everything is working well except that some of his apps run from CD i.e. Wiggles stuff
Anyway, with parental controls on his login does not allow these to run, we get a permission denied error. Is there any preference/control in Tiger or Leopard that will allow his apps to run?
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Rick

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Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion run Windows from inside Mac OS X through emulation. Applications which require direct hardware access likely won't work, and this method is slower than Boot Camp. It is more convenient to use, as no restarts are needed.
CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Games translate the Windows instructions directly to Mac OS X ones. This is the cheapest method if you don 't already have Windows and the least compatible one.
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I am running Mac OS 10.6.7 I cannot run a java based program from the net when parental controls are set the error is The error is Load: class installer.CheckVersion 13. class not found Help!

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I've been having issues with my late 2008 MacPro running Mavericks 10.9.5. It has been freezing and unable to wake from sleep.
I checked the log and it seems to be the parental controls. I see "parentalcontrolsd" and "StartObservingFSEvents" listed at say 4:00AM and then nothing util 8:00AM when I had to force reboot the mac.
Now I do NOT have Parental Controls turned on and there are no accounts assigned to PC.
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HT1339 I took my daughters ipod away for 2 months when I gave it back she forgot her password now it is locked. I would like to reset it with my information so I will have her password. Also is there parent controls?.

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BT Parental Controls window won't go away

Hi there,
I use BT Internet and am on wifi. Today I switched on my PC and every time I open a webpage in Google Chrome or Internet Explorer, I get a little window from BTInternet asking me if I want to activate Parental Controls. I click "No" and it takes me to a page, saying "You have chosen not to enable parental controls." All fine and dandy. So I click "Close" on that page and it tries to do something, then just times out. I usually use Chrome but I tried it on Internet Explorer as well, where it closes instead of timing out.
HOWEVER
It doesn't seem to be registering that I DON'T want to use parental controls because the message appears on every online shopping website I try to visit, and because it's there, I can't browse any of the pages.
The other PC connected to the router via ethernet is not having this problem.
I've tried clearing cache and cookies and using a different browser (Internet Explorer) but this doesn't work.
Can anyone please help me?
This is what I'm seeing.

Hi laalaa,
Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting!
Sorry for the problems you're having. There was an issue with parental controls but everything should be sorted now. Can you post back to let me know please? If you're still having problems I'll give you a hand from here if needs be.
All the best,
Robbie
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Parental Controls crashing my Mac

I keep getting random freezes and when I check the log, the last thing to be running before I reboot is "parentalcontrolsd". There is a notice about "***StartObservingFSEvents started event stream" and then the next entry is when I force reboot.
I do not have parental controls turned on for any account. Is there anyway to completely delete this service?
I've tried running this through Terminal - and still no good.
sudo rm -rf /Library/Application\ Support/Apple/ParentalControls/
Thanks for any advice.
Jim

Have you thought about taking it away from her and only allowing her to use it for school work in front of you, IE in the same room you are in. And when she is done with school work turn it off and take it away from her. Then make her read a book.
Get it, Wipe the drive, reinstall the OS, Set yourself as the admin, give her a normal User account and set the P controls again.
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Parental Controls CPU 100%

Under Activity Monitor Parentalcontrols is running at between 30-97% CPU- whatever will bring the total to 100%. this has been ongoing for several days now and the computer will not fully go to sleep- screen goes dark, but no flashing light, but I can force it to sleep. When I try to change parental controls settings locally- System preferences crashes and has to be force quit, but I can change settings from a different networked computer. Any ideas?

I have been testing different scenarios and have been able to keep this from occurring under 10.5.2. Let me start by saying that I have had these issues happen on my Mac Mini.
Everytime I have enabled "Use Simple Finder" AND "Only allow selected applications" TOGETHER has resulted in the parentalcontrols process to run away. Everytime I have disabled these two settings and kept all the other Parental Control settings as I had it before, the parentalcontrols process has NOT consumed all the CPU cycles.
Give this a try and see if this helps. What helps is to have the Activity monitor open while doing this. Disable all Parental Controls first, Force Quite the parentalconcrols process, then re-enable the Parental Control on the accounts you need, keeping away from setting both "Use Simple Finder" and "Only allow selected applications" together.
Also I read somewhere that disabling fast user switching would help. I have kept my fast user switching turned ON.
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Time Limits broken in 10.5.7? -- Parental Controls

My daughter can use the computer for 2 hours on weekdays (between reasonable hours).
However, since 10.5.6 and now 10.5.7, she is getting away with about 4 hours a day.
I did a "last" command from terminal today and when added up it was almost 4.5 hours.
She is never warned or kicked off. This is a huge issue for us. Is this a known problem or is there a way to reset time limits to make them work!
PS I do notice that she reboots a lot between sessions. Is this somehow resetting the clock?

I've got two macs for my two sons and they are both having problems since update. On one of the machines (mac mini) I'm seeing a problem similar to what you have (if not exactly the same) and on the other I've got a weird problem with adding time. If the child runs out of time, it is now impossible to successfully add time. When I go to add time it looks like it's going to work OK, but then the user gets kicked out back to the login screen. The really bad thing is that if I try to login with the parent account (the admin account) it looks like it's going to work, but then as soon as the desktop appears I get booted back to the login window! This cycle is impossible to break, except by rebooting the machine! Way to go apple! Prior to the update, parental controls had weird problems, now it's got REALLY weird problems. I'm just hopping they've got this sorted out by the next OS, but by that time my kids will problem be grown up.

Parental Controls Fails to Log Managed Account Out (logs included)

I use Parental Controls to limit my children's time playing video games (my time, too). The forced logout often fails. In particular, the screen flashes and the voice are present, but the forced logout doesn't happen, and the child (or me) is free to continue wasting time. Here's the relevant portion of system.log:
Jan 1 18:32:21 Schmoop-Box-3 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/FamilyControls.framework/Resources/logoutHelp er[1638]: CGSCreateLoginSession failed with error 1010
Jan 1 18:32:21 Schmoop-Box-3 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow[1639]: Login Window Application Started -- Threaded auth
Jan 1 18:32:22 Schmoop-Box-3 loginwindow[1639]: Login Window Started Security Agent
Jan 1 18:32:22 Schmoop-Box-3 SecurityAgent[1647]: NSExceptionHandler has recorded the following exception:\nNSUncaughtSystemExceptionException -- Uncaught system exception: signal 10\nStack trace: 0x3721e 0x9116d2bb 0xffffffff 0x7ed0a 0x7f4c8 0x7fe8b 0x65b60 0x63931 0x6245f 0x67dc2 0x77c9f 0xd648 0x12c40 0x129f3 0xd18a 0x91525733 0x96ef0455 0x96f148e8 0x96f14cd8 0x930df2c0 0x930df0d9 0x930def4d 0x942a6d7d 0x942a6630 0x9429f66b 0x10fc7 0x202a 0x1
Jan 1 18:32:28 Schmoop-Box-3 ReportCrash[1650]: Formulating crash report for process SecurityAgent[1647]
Jan 1 18:32:29 Schmoop-Box-3 loginwindow[1639]: Login Window - Returned from Security Agent
Jan 1 18:32:30 Schmoop-Box-3 ReportCrash[1650]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/SecurityAgent2009-01-01-183222Schmoop-Box-3.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
Note the similarity to the earlier post by Mike Harris (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6259747). Unfortunately, this one is somewhat different; the error returned by CGSCreateLoginSession is 1010. In CGError.h, this error is defined as: kCGErrorInvalidOperation. If I could see what arguments were being passed to CGSCreateLoginSession, this might help...
Following this failure, there's a crash log written for the SecurityAgent, which suggests a bus error, though I'm guessing this is not related to the root cause.
Process: SecurityAgent [1647]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent
Identifier: SecurityAgent
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: securityd [21]
Date/Time: 2009-01-01 18:32:22.890 -0800
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96ef81bb CFNumberGetValue + 43
1 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007ed0a AuthorizationPluginCreate + 29087
2 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007f4c8 AuthorizationPluginCreate + 31069
3 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007fe8b AuthorizationPluginCreate + 33568
4 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00065b60 0x57000 + 60256
5 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00063931 0x57000 + 51505
6 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0006245f 0x57000 + 46175
7 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00067dc2 0x57000 + 69058
8 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x00077c9f AuthorizationPluginCreate + 308
9 com.apple.securityagent 0x0000d648 0x1000 + 50760
10 com.apple.securityagent 0x00012c40 Security::DataWalkers::Copier<AuthorizationValueVector>::Copier(AuthorizationVa lueVector const*, Security::Allocator&) + 2962
11 com.apple.securityagent 0x000129f3 Security::DataWalkers::Copier<AuthorizationValueVector>::Copier(AuthorizationVa lueVector const*, Security::Allocator&) + 2373
12 com.apple.securityagent 0x0000d18a 0x1000 + 49546
13 com.apple.Foundation 0x91525733 __NSFireMachPort + 99
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96ef0455 __CFMachPortPerform + 117
15 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96f148e8 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 3896
16 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x96f14cd8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
17 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930df2c0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
18 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930df0d9 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x930def4d BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 106
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x942a6d7d _DPSNextEvent + 657
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x942a6630 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x9429f66b -[NSApplication run] + 795
23 com.apple.securityagent 0x00010fc7 0x1000 + 65479
24 com.apple.securityagent 0x0000202a 0x1000 + 4138
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x911083ae _semwaitsignal + 10
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x91532399 +[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:] + 73
2 ...yAgentPlugin.loginwindowUI2 0x0007ddfd AuthorizationPluginCreate + 25234
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x914eb7ed -[NSThread main] + 45
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x914eb394 _NSThread__main_ + 308
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91132095 pthreadstart + 321
6 libSystem.B.dylib 0x91131f52 thread_start + 34
Any help appreciated,
John Clements

Sadly, this sequence did not solve the problem, though I do have a bit more information.
Firstly; following a reboot, the first forced logout worked correctly, and subsequent ones failed; I believe that this is always the case. That is, it always works the first time after rebooting, and fails thereafter.
With respect to your suggestions: the preference file was loginwindow.plist, not com.apple.loginwindow.plist. I did delete it, and it was re-created; it looks pretty innocuous. Using the Property List Editor to convert it to XML, it looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>BuildVersionStampAsNumber</key>
<integer>19269344</integer>
<key>BuildVersionStampAsString</key>
<string>9G55</string>
<key>SystemVersionStampAsNumber</key>
<integer>168101376</integer>
<key>SystemVersionStampAsString</key>
<string>10.5.6</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Thirdly, running fix perms in Disk Utility did find altered permissions on several likely-looking files; the secure.log was group-readable and shouldn't have been, and several elements of /Library/Application Support/ were not group-readable and were supposed to be. Unfortunately, repairing these permissions did not make the problem go away.
I do have one final clue, though; on the first (successful) forced logout after rebooting, I noticed a launchd message in system.log:
Jan 4 10:21:26 Schmoop-Box-3 com.apple.launchd[198] ([0x0-0x22022].com.yourcompany.starwars[231]): Exited: Killed
That's the successful one, mind you. So I'm wondering whether the first successful exit is taking down some launchd agent that helps with the forced logout process.
Ah, speculation.
Many thanks for your suggestions.
John Clements

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