complaining that you are talking about ways to get around measures…

Shouldn’t that admin, be glad that you gave him this information, so he can test it in his own environment, and adjust or suggest changes be made.

It is a very irresponsible attitude for an admin to have, to simply complain about the information being made available, rather than see if he can protect against it.

anyways, thanks for the information, even though I pretty much knew it all, it was fun to see the interesting conversation revolving around it.

You must try and see the issues from both sides of the fence.

Can someone please help me on this? This is really a helpful site for me. Thanks so much!

Not sure if you have an FTP account you can access and download files from (if they are there), but you could try “transloading” the exe you want to the FTP server and then fetching it from there.

This is how WebTV users used to save images, since they had no storage in their TV.

Try this site, if you have FTP access…just enter URL of exe file you want then click the button to Step 2 and enter in the FTP server info. The service will fetch the file & upload it there for you.

http://www.transloader.com

Should have been “which I believe operates more or less…”

Google is presenting their own mobile versions of most pages on the internet. They load fast, no scripting on them (much safer), no flash or java applets, you can turn off images, and all links you click on them go to same mobile format type of pages.

The only real problem you may have with them is most forms are broken (you can’t comment on blogs or login to sites), you can’t download binaries (you can peek & see file names inside archives, though), but you can still read the content on the pages, and that’s the important part.

I put a bookmarklet on the sidebar of my blog that will allow you to switch from normal version to Google mobile version quickly & easily, if anyone wants to try it.(just drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and you are good to go)

I also have an input box for you to type in URL’s directly, to visit the sites, if you just want to test it.

I originally put it on my site for owners of old slow computers that can’t handle some sites, and people on dialup that just want things a bit faster. But the more people that it can help and the more useful it can be for other situations, the better.

If you want to do this without getting caught, don’t do anything stupid or obvious. If your traffic is not encrypted, a decent IDS at the gateway is going to get you busted (this happens at work monthly). If you do anything that uses a lot of bandwidth, this is going to get you busted (this also happens, more rarely).

And of course, if you do this on a computer at work/school/etc where you do not have admin rights you are likely going to get busted (assuming the IT staff isn’t brain dead) when they pick up your crumbs on the machine.

VPN (or tunnels over SSH) and portable apps (portableFF/SSH) are THE best way to go, if you can figure out a good way to make it work. An even better way to go is to tunnel via SSH from within a QEMU (or other virtualized machine) of Damn Small Linux running off a memory stick.

But generally, it’s not worth all the hassle, unless you’re really bored.

As an admin, well, I’d like to put you in my shoes for a few weeks.

(I’d also like to force Bill Gates to use his own OS as a punishment, but that’s a different reply entirely.)

Blocking proxies wont stop you getting malware/spyware and in fact has nothing at all to do with it so why even mention it? Proxies do not install malware, nasty sites do.

Oh and only a couple of months ago there was an exploit in how Windows handled meta image files and a lot of people got infected with bots by some clever sod using this exploit in advertising images hosted on LEGITIMATE sites. How would your wonderful websense/firewall ohelped you then?

God is it me or do most so called IT admins talk total s**t in an attempt to justify their inflated pay packet?

However, websense takes care of you list, even olympicproxy.com.

And thanksto our FW restrictions, we get very few successful spyware/malware connections…and never a BOT net. so UP YOURS!!!!

In my previous job there were times I needed information and rather than wait the day or two it takes to go through the normal channels it was quicker and easier to just use a proxy site.