Doug71zt Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Help - Aux or anyone that does IT - How do you get around Websense blocking Hybridz as a 'club or forum'? I am in the jungle in Ecuador and the company started blocking sites with Websense, including HybridZ. I'm here half the year and I'll loooosssseee my mind if I don't have hybridz to keep my sanity. I can access some forums still, like the Miller welding forum, not sure why HybridZ gets blocked. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_racer1999 Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 websense SUCKS! my websense doesn't block any forums, though. i think it's a local setting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxilary Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 it means that teh sysadmin managing websense server is manually tagging hybridz.org to be blocked, perhaps from bandwidth monitoring. You can try going through a proxy such as http://www.hidemyipaddress.net or amegaproxy.com to see if it'll do traffic routing without triggerring websense filters. eracer: websense is a commercial tool to filter internet traffic for companies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug71zt Posted May 4, 2007 Author Share Posted May 4, 2007 Thanks Aux - I can't imagine that it would have been tagged for bandwidth monitoring - I'm the only guy here with a Z-car. This is a new operational base for me, the last one used Websense also, but didn't block forums. Porn, streaming video, computer software sites, SKYPE, sports, etc. Here they block almost everything, but I can get my company intranet here and Outlook Web Access. I'm on a laptop cell card right now, it is slow and unreliable - and soon to be not available to me. I tried the hidemyipaddress.net and got a ad site? Will keep trying, but sooner or later someone from IT will be in to visit, as I keep banging on the Websense filters..... Sucks when the only gringo in this patch of jungle is me.. Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxilary Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 you could make friends with the IT guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
280zwitha383 Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Do they monitor the sites you go to? If they see www.hidemyipaddress.net they might get a little supsicious. Is there a more blah address to a site/service like this that might help - try google Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 A few of my "secrets". 1 Use Hamachi to control a remote computer for surfing. (invisible to most firewalls) 2 Click on the google link to the cached version of the site. 3 Use babelfish to translate the site from "anylanguage" to English. (be prepared for some funny translations) 4 Free dialup service...if you have access to one. hehehe shhhhh! My "big brother" uses websense also. When it was installed here, I downloaded and read the entire manual. Gotta know your enemy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_82_ZXT Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Here's a way to get through BUT you can't log in. Last I remember in highschool we would use translators, such as worldlingo.com, to translate a site from english to english. That would get through websense and they wouldn't block worldlingo because it is a legit site. You could use proxies, BUT some companies have rules for going through thier websence. A free trial of one a friend would use: https://www.megaproxy.com In fact, I think you should be ok using a secure site (httpS). This is what I used to use: https://proxify.com/ Dunno if they charge anymore. It used to be free, then they started charging, but that was a REALLY long time ago. Most of these just give you a certain amount of MB you can download in a set period (aka don't go into too many photo threads). Mario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_racer1999 Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 eracer: websense is a commercial tool to filter internet traffic for companies. ya that's what i meant... i guess local setting was the wrong term to describe it....haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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