First of all, I want to echo the feedback you are getting, that you could be putting a lot at risk by trying to bypass websense at work.

Having said that, a few weeks ago, I read in my local newspaper, that a way to bypass this to get to some sites, is to have google translate it.

http://www.google.com/language_tools

If you choose e.g. German to English and put in an English website URL, it'll still show it to you in English and the URL that comes up, is that of google.

**I haven't tried this myself - coz i didn't have the need to**. but at the time I read it, i thought it was pretty interesting.

Anyways, try this and please provide feedback on whether it works (Websense is one of the best in the industry, though).

Good luck (both with getting thru and keeping your job )

-R

995 is the standard port for pop over ssl.

Sorry,,,,created separate thread....

Yahoo!Mail is (kinda) free.

http://dbeusee.home.comcast.net/

I know of two ways to get around websense. The first is the one where you copy and paste the url of the site you want to go to into google languafe tools and translate it from german to english. It will then take you to the site you wish to go to.
The other way i know also uses google and all you have to do is search for the site you want and then hit cached wich is under the description of the site and is a clickable blue font.
These ways should work altho lately websense has increased their security persay and there are some problems. So you can try them out and hopefully it will work. ^

Welcome to FlyerTalk, pguns5!

You forgot the 3rd way... talking to the IT department about allowing you to access the sites you need and why you need those sites. I've found that most places make the Websense rules strict when they first install Websense because of people surfing the web when they should be working.

Something to consider (and ask the IT department about) would be the use of gotomypc.com to access your home PC. That way, while you'd be checking your email, you wouldn't actually be checking it with a corporate machine, and thus not exposing the corporate machine to anything they don't want on their network.

That may not matter, but I can name at least a few companies that would be fine with that.

Steve

If you can't get them to give you permission to access your web mail, then the above is the best overall solution and the only general one. They will be able to tell that you're making an outbound ssh connection but they won't be able to see what you're doing with it.

They can shut down your ssh port of course but you can just switch to a different one. If they start playing whack a mole with you then forget it, you're not going to win and you probably WILL get in trouble. But then again if they spend their time on that they are psychos who need their heads examined. @:-)

/pbz

A good alternative to this, which I've successfully used to access my home PC is called LogMeIn.com, and is free - unlike Gotomypc....

Just a thought, Dave

I use both gotomypc and have used logmein in the past to connect to home and use that machine.

I would first ask they allow access, it's quite possible they are running with the default database and will be more then willing to open it up for you. I would, unless it became a problem.

They installed it on the system for a reason. Going around it without their OK is a very bad thing, it could be grounds for being unemployed here if you get caught. Unless you have a private office, somebody will see you on a page they can't get to and ask IT to fix their machine too, and you are burned.

Our firewall software (can't remember what it is) will sometimes allow you to request that a blocked site be unblocked. My biggest problem is that it blocks flyertalk.com!!! Any other discussion type board I have ever hit is open, but FT is blocked and has valid business purposes. I've requested it be opened, but no response after several months.

One of these usually get me in...

http://www.ocrig.com
http://www.proxy.org
http://www.teradazzle.com
http://www.unblockworld.com
http://www.publicproxyservers.com