This website is banned,

[Jeffreii]

My friend is in the army and they use (depending on where you are at) a lot of filtering. Sad to say, a lot of it was caused by (sorry, vets) solders releasing sensitive information out (such as an equipments weak spot) on their blogs and whatnot and then having terrorists (and the public for that matter) know about it . The connections in iraq were like that, at least the ones she used, and a lot of times on bases state side as well. I will have to see if she can view THR - i'm curious now. She may not be able to test though as she got her own private connection now (DSL link). They do not like blogs and forums I think, and email and uploading are usually filtered. Sucks as you cannot communicate well but I think it depends on where you are at as different places use different filtering.

 

[DANGERRUSS]

Any ideas how to get around "websense" blocks. I tried proxies and they are blocked. I really hate websene-less blocks

 

[03Shadowbob]

Not in WPB, Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio, Charlotte, Philly, Cinci, Dayton, Denver, KC, Reno, and others. Or at least not on mine.

 

[Guitargod1985]

The High Road comes up fine for me at my last college and the one that I currently attend. I must be one of the lucky ones.

 

[Mac Attack]

Shoot! My company must be blocking my Psiphon connection now because I haven't been able to connect for the past few days. Now I have to try something else.

 

[Mojo-jo-jo]

Shoot! My company must be blocking my Psiphon connection now because I haven't been able to connect for the past few days. Now I have to try something else.

It would be unusual for a company to block port 443, the default port that HTTPS (and Psiphon) uses. Blocking this port would make a lot of "legitimate" web sites (basically any web site with a login) stop working. Check first and make sure that your Windows firewall did not turn on. See if you can access your Psiphon proxy from elsewhere, like a friend's house.

If everything else looks good, try changing the port used in Psiphon's setup menu. Valid range is from 1 to 65535. "Common" service ports are below 1024. If your company is blocking ports, try some very common ones that may not be blocked (many applications like email clients, network equipment, etc. depend on these ports):
20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 49, 69, 80, 88, 109, 110, 119, 123.

Also try any above 1024.

You will have to change the URL you use to contact your Psiphon server. For example, if you decide to use port 60000, your new URL will be like https://mypsiphoncomputer.mydomain.com:60000

If you are using any other server software at home, be sure that the port you choose doesn't conflict. If you are running Microsoft RDP at home, you can't use 3389 and if you are running your own personal web server you can't use 80. Also avoid 53, 67, and 68. These may cause things (like DHCP and DNS--network necessities) not to work.

 

[Mojo-jo-jo]

ArfinGreebly - Thanks for the info on Torpark. I had toyed with Tor some time ago, but it was so difficult to get set up back then it wasn't worthwhile.

Unfortunately, I was turned off by the Torpark (now xeroBank) "pay to play" model. A little more research led me to the "FoxyProxy" extension for firefox. This works very well and was super-easy to install.

"FoxyProxy" + Tor is just what the doctor ordered for anonymous browsing. However, if anonymity is not your aim, just filtering proxy avoidance, Psiphon is a much speedier solution and doesn't require any software to be installed on the "work" computer.

 

[chrlefxtrt]

Try typing https:// instead of http://

or go to vtunnel(dot)com it is a proxy site.

That is how I get on THR at work. vtunnel hides where you are going so they don't know what restricted sites you are visiting.

 

[Flfiremedic]

Work blocked THR last hitch. It also blocked most of the motorcycle sites I went to. They also publish a list of "catagories" of websites each computer goes to.

 

[Mac Attack]

Mojo Wrote: "If everything else looks good, try changing the port used in Psiphon's setup menu. Valid range is from 1 to 65535. "Common" service ports are below 1024. If your company is blocking ports, try some very common ones that may not be blocked (many applications like email clients, network equipment, etc. depend on these ports):
20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 49, 69, 80, 88, 109, 110, 119, 123."

Mojo, Thanks for the tip. I tried what you said and it's working fine again.