Web Filters - videohelp forum blocked

[bugster]

The IT department at work just installed a Web filter system (Web Marshall I think its called). This is in order to 'enforce IT best practice and to protect emplyees'. It has blocked the videohelp forum pages from me. There is a small posssibility that I can get the site unblocked but in the meantime any one have any ideas how I can get round this?

[bazooka]

Go through a proxy.

[Dr. DOS]

Citrix Server... do they use Citrix at all to support remote access to server resources... You may be able to then nav to videohelp.

It helped me get past a nasty blockage to Wachovia (bank) once.

[bugster]

Go through a proxy.

I already do, the company proxy server!

Do you think I could bypass it and use another proxy. I know that if I disable using the proxy altogether I get no internet access at all.

[bugster]

Citrix Server... do they use Citrix at all to support remote access to server resources... You may be able to then nav to videohelp.

Not as far as I know but I can check, thanks

BTW the videohelp forum is blocked by the rule 'Block Pornography'

[yoda313]

Hello,

My condolonces Bugster

Good luck

Kevin

[Capmaster]

Citrix Server... do they use Citrix at all to support remote access to server resources... You may be able to then nav to videohelp.

Not as far as I know but I can check, thanks

BTW the videohelp forum is blocked by the rule 'Block Pornography'

They must have seen some of the early August threads then

[bugster]

Citrix Server... do they use Citrix at all to support remote access to server resources... You may be able to then nav to videohelp.

Not as far as I know but I can check, thanks

BTW the videohelp forum is blocked by the rule 'Block Pornography'

They must have seen some of the early August threads then

True

But as far as some of those went, and as gross as some of them were, I still wouldn't classify them as Pornography!

Fark is also blocked, as is somethingawful and thesmokinggun.

I might have to do some work

[Capmaster]

THe horror. I often have nightmares about my employer blocking external web access. They've done it before, when Yahoo mail generated a most unfortunate string of ascii in the URL But a day later and it was cleared up.

But permanently cut off?

[bazooka]

Go through a proxy.

I already do, the company proxy server!

Do you think I could bypass it and use another proxy. I know that if I disable using the proxy altogether I get no internet access at all.

You could probably use remote desktop and access another proxy.

[Doramius]

My work unblocked MSN & Hotmail recently. They received thousands of messages within a 48 hour period and they said the messages alone were causing so much traffic, that they just released it. Hopefully it's the last time they call Hotmail a porn site. Hotmail has about as much porn as Rolie Polie Olie (almost said Disney, but quickly retracted ).

[bigmicka]

blocking needs to be done sometimes though.

i work for a public hospital and these are the top three sites visited.

www.realestate.com.au
www.ebay.com
cis.org.au

now the top two out rank the third site by quite a margin.

its a pity then that the third site is our internal pathology and radiology results site, this should be first if people were actually doing there work.

realestate purchases and bidding on ebay should be done out of hours. im not paying for you to win your auction during work hours.

mic

[shoozleboy]

Ebineezer!!

[Doramius]

I work around a lot of real estate, so that first one is pretty common here.

[offline]

I hate Web Marshall. Still it is easy to bypass. Grab
a free proxy server and you are set unless they
have blocked 80 & 8080. If they have blocked them
then you have to get a port scanner to find out
what ports are free.

[stiltman]

Are you on broadband at home?
Setup some remote session software to use an open port at work to connect to your home puter and away you go...

Something I should of done a few months back

[bugster]

Hooray!!!

A friendly word with the IT admin (who is apparently NOT the Webmarshall admin, thats the company 'security' manager), and videohelp.com is unblocked. Other sites are still blocked, but at least I can read and post here now.

As for ways round Webmarshall. It seems the only open port is the one used for SSH (437 I think). A colleague has set up a secure proxy on his home machine and tunnels trhough SSH to that. He obviously does not want to get caught so won't tell anyone the IP address etc but is willing to help others set up a similiar system.

SO maybe soon...