Any IT folks here? Net filter question

[skiandclimb]

So, I come into work today after a couple days off, and find a new internet filtering program being used- "Fortiguard" 

Cannot go to Motogp.com...banned "sports".   Cannot go to Facebook...banned "personal relationships".   

Anyone know of some way to er..."bypass" this thing, or am I dreaming?  My knowledge of all things computer is minimal.

TIA,
Ski

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

Is it worth getting fired for bypassing a company internet filter at work?

[skiandclimb]

Depends. It can get realllllly boring here at times!

[Ducmarc]

don't you have any guns to play with or a tazer to test . strange it's called fortiguard . sounds gender restrictive . i have a good friend that was with FHP then left it for a job with police force for a town built around a mall. naturally we consider him the most over paid mail cop ever. but seriously I've spent some time with him during a few shifts and i don't know how you guys do it. it's like 7 hours and 50min. of boredom and ten min. of panic. followed by 3 hrs of paperwork. when the police pull you over or come to your house they really don't want to arrest anyone because of the paperwork. if it were me i would have to clunk someone on the head just for making me do the paperwork. maybe you could get wifi or an Iphone and hide in the jon .good luck .  marc

[ProudWife]

Unfortunately, to disengage a running program, you usually have to get your hands on the main server... go into computer programs, find the program, then turn the filter off.  Now how does that go... if you choose to accept this mission, something could blow up..?  I did get a cool cell phone through AT&T, the Pantech Matrix, with this phone I am able to get easily on the internet and access the speed channel and with it, the library of any motorcycle race you could possibly want to see.  You can either see the last couple laps or the whole race.  Or you could get the new Mini Dell Computer with Wi-Fi.   

[skiandclimb]

Marc- 100% true.  It's 99% boredom, with 1% sheer terror.  Hence my need for the interwebs.

Thinknng about taking my laptop in to be able to dork around the net.  Truth s I amcomputer illiterate, so I wasn't sure if there was some magic button! lol

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

One solution for you is to take your own laptop in, but you will need to get your own mobile broadband card (like sprint and AT&T) so you dont have to hook into your employers internet. Even with your own laptop using your employers internet service you still are limited to what they will allow.

[gixxer188]

Proxy!  There are millions of proxy websites out there that even your new Internet filter can't get all of them.  Find one and then you can use it to by-pass the filter.  People do it all time where I work and it pisses me off!

Do a google search for the word proxy and then just click on them until you get into one.