for all you computer geeks....

[Michaelmr2]

I need help, and you computer geeks (gurus) you know who you are! ;)

Ok so my work has blocked all external email sites like hotmail, yahoo etc.. I want to access it from work.

Tell me how to beat the system!

Mike

[phoenixr2]

uh oh. the revolution begins! :D

[Michaelmr2]

Originally posted by phoenixr2
uh oh. the revolution begins! :D
Revolution? Well I dont exactly need the services of "the one" but a systems engineer would be handy.

[blackice]

can you install software on your work PC? if so i would suggests installing winVNC and just VPN'ing into your home computer and do what ever you like.

[Michaelmr2]

Originally posted by blackice
can you install software on your work PC? if so i would suggests installing winVNC and just VPN'ing into your home computer and do what ever you like.

Nope, they quarantine all downloads too.

[flyboy]

"just VPN to your home"

Funny.

Michael -
You are probably quite screwed. They either pushed a policy to your machine, which requires admin access to remove, or they disallowed your VLAN from access to the firewall and gateway. The latter is the more probabe situation, and that is even more out of your control, unless you know the passwords to the routers and they actually opened them up for network modifications, which is highly unlikely.

[Michaelmr2]

Originally posted by flyboy
"just VPN to your home"

Funny.

Michael -
You are probably quite screwed. They either pushed a policy to your machine, which requires admin access to remove, or they disallowed your VLAN from access to the firewall and gateway. The latter is the more probabe situation, and that is even more out of your control, unless you know the passwords to the routers and they actually opened them up for network modifications, which is highly unlikely.

.well at least I can access RMMOC.com at work.

[flyboy]

Oh really! I thought you were blocked from the whole internet.

In this case, it's a setting in the firewall itself. Sorry, though, it's just as secure.

[SpecialED]

Originally posted by flyboy

You are probably quite screwed.

:roflmao: Succinct, powerful, facetious yet devoid of any ephithets. Well done.

[flyboy]

*bows*

Damnit, Hsun, you made me look up words. That doesn't happen often. You actually misspelled the last word.

fa·ce·tious (adj.)
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.

ep·i·thet (n.)

1. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.
2. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln.
3. An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
4. Biology. A word in the scientific name of an animal or plant following the name of the genus and denoting a species, variety, or other division of the genus, as sativa in Lactuca sativa.

[[jsr]Brendon]

Originally posted by SpecialED
Succinct, powerful, facetious yet devoid of any ephithets.


T-5 seconds to head implosion.

[SpecialED]

Originally posted by flyboy
You actually misspelled the last word.


Dammit!!!!

* bows head in shame and slinks off the Internet - temporarily *

[phoenixr2]

ill share a secret with you guys
www.dicitionary.com
www.thesaurus.com

;)

[SpecialED]

Originally posted by phoenixr2

www.dicitionary.com


:roflmao: They used a misspelled word for their url . . . for a DICTIONARY site!!!!

How dumb/ironic is that!

[oldster]

Originally posted by SpecialED
:roflmao: They used a misspelled word for their url . . . for a DICTIONARY site!!!!

How dumb/ironic is that!

Actually pretty smart, they pick up all the people who mispell when trying to get to www.dictionary.com.

[Sphore]

At my old work they had something like that. We could visit some sites but not others. I simply wrote a few scripts hosted on one of my web servers ( i run hosting on the side ) that would do as i needed and retreive sites under it's domain. i have about 100 domains available to me so i just kept bouncing around. for things like AIM, i forget exactly what i did but i tunneled out through a proxy server hack. now i work on cars and have forgotten all my hijnx from days as a programmer

[phoenixr2]

shit, I meant www.dictionary.com lol I was in a hurry as I was writing that reply. guess I should spell check my posts!

[SpecialED]

I didn't think of that, that's a good point, but the sheer principle of it still seems pretty silly.

[MR2Fast]

Odds are you are just not allowed to install programs to the program files folder. Try to install programs to your My Documents folder or something else for VPN'ing to your home pc. My suggestion is get to be good friends with your IT department as they control all of that. One other way would be to get access to a proxy service yourself or to make your own.

[flyboy]

Guys -
There is no way they will allow a VPN connection to his computer. On the off chance he could get one to work, he would still have to have a non-firewalled connection to the internet, as the VPN tunnel would probably be exclusive.

It won't work.

[MR2Fast]

If you have a configurable VPN program you can change the port that it sends info on to replicate say Internet Explorer port. But you're more than likey right, it probably won't work.

[flyboy]

You still have a VPN connection that is excluding you from the internet, unless you have dual nics going from one side to the other. If you can reach the internet from the same computer that you can VPN across a firewall without using the company proxy, that defeats the purpose of using a VPN in the first place.

Not to mention it allows back-door access to any worm that either of the computers may have. They can trace that very effectively using your ISP and press charges.

[Michaelmr2]

Originally posted by MR2Fast
If you have a configurable VPN program you can change the port that it sends info on to replicate say Internet Explorer port. But you're more than likey right, it probably won't work.


I didnt understand anything you just said, so for now I will stick with the first suggestion that I am probably just screwed.

im :ygwned: by my company

oh well.

[MR2Fast]

Yeah consider yourself 0wn3d