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Sneaking the Internet at Work
Douglas Chick
It simply amazes me what people at work will
do to get their
computer on the Internet; they risk loosing their jobs to surf Facebook, MySpace,
porn, and outside e-mail accounts, and those ridiculous jokes they
pass between each other. I've seen romances flame up and burn out on
the same day, there are those that search for love and sex, online
banking, bill paying, help with divorces, restraining orders, and
marriages. I've seen people ordering cheerleader outfits for their
spouses, themselves, and co-workers. Hulu, HBO, Youtube, and jokes,
jokes and more jokes. So, if you are one of these poor souls that
must surf, below are a few tips to help get you out there, because
we want to see more...
Bypassing your company’s
web filter or proxy server to surf the internet:
Open Internet Explorer, go to
Tools, this will open the Connections Tab, at the bottom click LAN
settings, in the Proxy server box, click the box (Use a proxy server
for your LAN. In the address box enter a proxy address brought from
your search at home (Search Proxy Addresses in Google) and use the
port number 8080.
http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/
Typical port numbers:
80,8080,3128,1080
If your Network administrator
blocked your access to your Proxy server setting, open your Windows
Registry Settings.
Note: changing your registry
settings could cause your computer to not restart.
Go to your Start button
à
Run à
type Regedit
HKEY_Current_user
Software
Microsoft
Windows
CurrentVersion
Internet settings
ProxyEnable =1
Proxyserver = proxyaddress and
port
Using IP Addresses
Instead of using the Internet
Friendly name like:
www.facebook.com
try using the IPaddress like:
First resolve the address.
Go to your Start button
à
Run à
Type in CMD.
With the command line window
appears, type in
Ping
www.facebook.com,
it may not allow you to ping their site, but their DNS server will
provide you with an IP address of their website
http://66.220.146.25
If a blocking software is
used, try putting an s behind the http like this https:// and in
many cases it will by pass your companies proxy and make a secure
connection.
Another method is simply
pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL on your keyboard, find the name of the
blocking software installed on the computer under the Processes tab,
and click the End Process button
Something for the Parents
Accessing people’s Facebook,
Myspace, and another website requires a long in without a username
and password.
Google tunnels in a website
and makes copies of webpages in their database(s) usually for faster
access. When viewing the results of a Google web search you will see
at the bottom of the results you will see the word Cache
underlined. This is a link to a copy of the website stored on
Google. So if you want to see someone’s account like, Facebook,
simply click on the Cache link and you can read their page and see
their friends.
Google
Mobile Search (Iphone or Blackberry…)
Google’s Mobile search can
help one circumvent a blocked site. When Google translates a normal
HTML web page into a mobile page it removes certain parts of the web
page (CSS scripts and JavaScript’s) it also reconfigures the sites
view to make a large page into smaller sized pages. During this
translation process, it is possible that many block software
programs will not be able to recognize the page as being one that
should be blocked.
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