You know, there are normally ways around this.

At my school they banned going to google.com/images by typing the term into the original box and thenc cliking on the images tab, but they didn't ban going onto picsearch.com or by simply going directly to the images website of google to search for pictures.

If you use a pop email and that's banned just use any web based pop email reciever, or look at it directly through cpanel.

Sometimes you can get around the firewall simply by changing the www. at the front for a http:// (yes I know that sounds stupid), also sometimes you can view the website through google cache (not very useful but at least you can see it), also you could try simply asking the administrator if he could unban your friend's band's website, and hotmail, neither of which pose any sort of harm to anybody.

I got the same problem when trying to access pages like google.com or hotmail.com. Actually on my first days at school the computers OS run on windows 98. And because you know that it is a campus you have to install security software to avoid students from changing the settings of the pc. They use something called guardian, but I was so annoyed with the limitation, so I tried to install PC security by tropsoft, hehehe got it I got the power on my side. I changed all the settings, and PC security has more features than guardian. The admin looked very disappointed with the program that I installed, and he was not aware who installed it. Apparently I got caught because my classmate never responded to the SOS of my other classmate. He warned me of this and that. Until then the entire campus replaced the os to win2000 and winnt. And they got this firewall that blocks websites. I like google a lot and they blocked it including all .com sites. So I tried google in other countries like google.nl, google.it. And on the webmail I used adres.nl but it doesn't offer free mail anymore. When the admin found out that most of the students can still use other sites, he gave up and enabled all site, hehehe.

My school uses Bess, which blocks most appropriate sites, leaving us with only inappropriate sites. It blocks proxies sites, so I can't find proxies at school. Then I found Sneak2, which is a site that is hopefully not blocked at your school, and can do something like how google caches a page, except Sneak2 gives you the current updated page. It takes your request, then uses its server to get the page you want, then sends it to you, so that the firewall can't block it. There are lots of addresses to Sneak2, so it's best if you go to your school and use google to check for one that isn't blocked. http://www.sneak2.com/ and http://sneak2.tk are probably blocked, but others may not be. Just don't use it to do illegal stuff, like watching pr0n...

My little brother has Bess at his school too, but he found out about proxify. He uses it all the time to get to websites he's not supposed to go too...not the bad ones. But ones for games and stuff.

Now, I've had this same problem and got annoyed one day, and now i browse anything i please.

My school uses Bess and Sonicwall, tween the 2 block alot. what you need is a CGI proxy, base it on a webserver. The idea is that you get a site you can connect to, (such as my own website), then it uses that server, (GET command), to get any site you wish. I use cyberanon. Theres a few others, google CGI proxy.

Theyre very simple to set up, i managed to do it. There is a way to delete meta tags from any site you get with it if you understand perl, but in my case it wasnt needed. Meta tags are the part that most search engines look for, and filters the same. You just can rewrite the option to delete javascript (which is built in) to delete meta tags. I dont know any programming so i cant help you, but i guess its possible.

LOL, unless you have a very very very very know how technet at your school, they have not set your bordermanager to transparent. the reason you can get in through the secure is because they have not blocked HTTPS, only HTTP. if you use IE then go to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Connection Wizard and open inetwiz and set up to go through a LAN and check maual proxy and DELETE THE IP ADDRESSES AND PORTS. save and check it out. Learned this through a war with the techs at my school, Cheers!

The security policy at my school blocked students from being able to change the settings in IE. But I realized that if you downloaded Firefox or Netscape, you could use them instead. The security policy didn't block their config screens.

Firefox is pretty much on every computer at my school now.

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I had a bad experience with this kind of thing just last week

I was in my computer graphics course and I had had problems with Photoshop on my computer, so the teacher had contacted the admins to get it reinstalled or whatever. So, I was trying to get onto GMail, but the admins had been blocking all sorts of sites lately, all e-mail prviders that I know of. So, I knew that prxify.us was blocked, and a lot of people know that you can get to some sites through the https protocol, so I try that. And then there's a phone call. It's the admin. The teacher comes over to me, asks me to save my work and let him sit down. Now the mouse had been laggy a little, and the icon down in the tool tray was black, the WinVNC or whatever. These are two signs that they are remote accessing your comuter So, the teacher sits down and says, that was the administrator, and he said that you were trying to bypass the firewall. And I was like... ****. So I just said I was trying to check my e-mail and the teacher said I wasn't really supposed to, and blah blah blah. I had other programs installed on the computer as well LOL, which makes 2 breeches of the agreement I made in using the school's computer. So, that was hanging over my head for that whole day, till I had the class again next day. Luckily, the reformatted my computer sort of, the wallpaper was reset to the Windows default and PS was working. So, I deleted the program files of the programs I had had installed, but I can't access the registry due to account restrictions. I'm just glad they didn't do anything further than kick me off for 20 mins of class that first day and that they didn't find my other programs Be careful trying to bypass the filters and firewalls

i would recomend using google caches, if they have them. i can get on an IRC chat applet with the caches. my school even blocked the loophole to the firewall since some "genious" bookmarked it on a school computer. but if anyone else has any way of getting past them, im all ears lol.

S this thing on the new fire wall at our school called enterprise security sysetem used to we could get by with a simple proxu but they have this new firewall. I need a way to take it down or get around it