Hello- I've read the posts below and am glad I did my undergrad back in the mid 90's when the web was fully open to explore. Now that I'm working I find myself at a progressive company who employs me as well as this evil Websense software....and it is making my usual break and lunchtime ebay and Craigslist searches rather short since i cant get to them.
So I bought a personal laptop and thought if I just plugged into the company ethernet I could access these sites since I wouldnt have to abide by the company privacy policy and obvious URL tracking they are doing. But it seems that Websense is doing a very good job at making it impossible to find even a proxy site that will allow me to surf eBay or Craigslist. I have not tried Tunneling yet.
I've read about Torpark, but when I went to the cnet site on my personal laptop at home I found the download and ran the executable. When i got back to work I ran their browser (while plugged into the network obviously), but it displays "trying to connect" for as long as I leave it running...hours. So that is not working as expected unless I'm doing something wrong??
Can you firewall guys please direct me toward a solution that may work? May the preferred mehod of Tunneling, or a proxy site that Websense hasnt been discovered in the last 30 seconds? Or what about a secure proxy site with httpS ??
Hoping you guys can help....from one enginerd to another?
Thanks!!
Stymied in Colorado, PE
mechanical engineer
