BOO to websense

[ExoVoid]

I'm in a school where websense is implemented to an extreme extent, I'm surprised i can view the kirupa forum, does anyone else have the problem of having to deal with websense?
If you don't know what it is, consider yourself lucky, its not worth wasting your time to find out.
(I don't like websense)

[frost_oni]

ha, i had to google websense to know what it was...wow man, that must feel weird to be be restricted...kind of having a metal plate in your skull to prevent you from thinking....

[Krilnon]

We used to have that our school... but then they switched it to something else... which wasn't any better, but the "Blocked Site" page was uglier.

I don't mind it that much... as long as I can get to my website, there's not much I can't do.

[Mik3]

Go through with the IP address

use a DNS lookup

[ExoVoid]

example of stupidness: www.mathsinfun.com is blocked under "entertainment" ... it finds keywords such as "218.296" and restricts them under "private addresses", "tasteless" is a category used for anything else which they can't make a category for... It's evil

[idoik]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=websense

[Jako]

We have some sort of firewall and security on our school comps as well. They blocked kirupa, this is their reason, "bulletin board." :(

Thank god I know of a few proxies to get around it :P

[ExoVoid]

proxy avoidance is filtered in my school though... can't get around it.

[pastey]

proxy avoidance is filtered in my school though... can't get around it.

There is always a way around it . . . it just depends on the lengths you wish to go to . . . . :pir:

[[uber]]

hahaa i was a server admin at my school.... i got away with everything.....

[pastey]

lol - that's generally the best/easiest place to start, but it's always more fun finding the 'outside' of your network and 'redirecting' it from there . . . or 'aquiring' password information . . . . .

of course not that I condone that course of action, but with a laptop, relevant consoling cables, site access and a little knowledge there is no such thing as lock-down . .

. . . until you get caught and then it takes on a whole new meaning with Bubba and the boys waiting for you inside . . . .

[ExoVoid]

Little do all of you know: my school, the most technologically advanced for a high school in NZ. Every one of the 1400 students have their own laptop. They can connect to the schools wireless network anywhere in the schools 2 square km grounds (approx 1.5 square miles for americans). The server is in a double locked room, inside which there is over 20 36-port cisco switches. Every one of those switches has been locked in a rack. The server is in a room attached to this one, climate controlled. Proxy avoidance not possible, the only way to access the internet through the school is to either unplug the cable from the server and put it in your laptop, or go through the schools proxy, which is guarded by websense. If the websense server goes down, the internet cannot be accessed apart from directly through the main 10Gbps server.

[love police]

i work at a school and we use websense lol :lol:

[ExoVoid]

personally, not something i'd brag about, (or even share) as I think not too highly of websense... but hey, do the students at ur school a favour, cause the websense server to shut down mistakenly for a couple of weeks, you will be loved :)

[Marbles]

allright... here you go... at my company, we have websense on our computers.... we cant get to anything really... so i spent some time crawling the net through things we CAN get to.. and i found quite a bit of information... usually, the websites will tell you that you can get around websense if you go to a translation site and enter the site from there... but this is not the case... Websense has gotten wise to this and blocked all translation sites.

here's the trick

one site you can use to get through websense is Http://www.ultrareach.net (http://www.ultrareach.net/)

now this is key... you HAVE to put the WWW in front, or websense knows it's a proxy avoidance website. if that dosnt work... you can go to https://proxify.com (https://proxify.com/) this is another site that websense sees as a proxy avoidance website.. the real trick is putting the S at the end of the http so it sends it to the secure server and then it'll send you to the right place.

if niether of these work, then you have an ultra-strict version or something, because they work on my computer at work ;)


Happy Surfing!

Marbles

//edit: you gotta click the little grey button after the link you enter on ultrareach in order to get it to forward you to the page

tip2: use the proxy to surf to google and then everything you find on google is unblocked ;)

[ExoVoid]

haha, i wish it were that easy... my websense finds the word proxy as a keyword and filters it. If a website is visited more than three times in a week that isn't on the allow list, it is checked out by the admins... it's absolutely insane

[Marbles]

just try it man... you never know... and keep the ultrareach window open while you're surfing... once will work for the whole day
then you can just keep your "extra-curricular web site usage" to twice a week and you're golden

Marbles

[ExoVoid]

easy for you to say, but laptops are carried throughout the school, turned on and off regularly, so that's impractical, sorry, but a nice attempt.

[Scarab]

It's a good job websense doesn't restrict an excellent educational resource like Kirupa!
I used to get around it by using silent surf, give it a try;
http://www.silentsurf.com/site/index.html
although i think the website has now gone commercial, and the demo version does not allow images.

[ExoVoid]

it blocks kirupaforum.com but not kirupa.com/forum, so thats how i'm getting through

[websense hater]

Try pureprivacy.com :thumb:
Don't do it too much or the system admin will shut it down.:jail:

[Maxtr0sity]

My friend set up a CGI proxy a while ago, anyone heard of those?

[ExoVoid]

How can I set up an anonymous proxy on my home computer? If I can do that, surely I can get past websense...

[Jako]

How can I set up an anonymous proxy on my home computer? If I can do that, surely I can get past websense...
http://jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/

[websense hater]

http://jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/

This does not work on websense. It is classified proxy avoidance.

[dirtygreek]

aw, you poor kids.

all you need to do is install a proxy program on your home computer, such as freeproxy, available at http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org (http://www.handcraftedsoftware.org)

yes this site will likely be blocked from school, but not from home (unless your parents or someone are blocking it).

now what you need to do is install that software, record your ip address, and set up your browser at school to connect to that ip as the proxy. voila.

mroe info here (http://www.dirtygreek.org/article.php?entry_id=49)

[kenshin]

how are we to do that if we can not even get to the website?! lol.. well i know a way to get to google images. they blocked them last year i think.. anyways i go to google.com.au they didn't block the austrailian site :D

[ExoVoid]

there are plenty of ways to google, the easy way around the image search block is to go to advanced image search, unless they blocked the url. If you can't do it that way, just use altavista.com image search

[prstudio]

Discussion about how to circumvent a security system is not allowed on these forums. I'm sorry but thread closed. Everyone that made a post about how to bypass the network filter consider this fair warning. Most of you all know this sort of discussion isn't allowed, other threads of this nature have been locked and deleted for some time now.