ESN blocked at work

by **Spit** on Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:23 pm

At work we have that Websense program (I work for the City Council) to stop us looking at anything we shouldn't; the iron curtain extends to subjects such as 'supplements and unregulated compounds', 'entertainment' and 'sport', which obviously rules out a fair bit. ESN has never been a problem until earlier this week, when it was denounced as 'sport' and access is now denied.

Is this a setting you've changed on the site KP, and if so can you un-change it please? Or has Websense stitched me up good and proper? :geek:

by **Alex** on Fri Feb 05, 2010 12:03 am

Prob picked up on key words.

Have you tried using a proxy?

by **kp1512** on Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:56 am

I dont think anything has been changed - websense works on scanning keywords and associats them with sites which then get added to a black list and white list.

There will have been content / words that were logged in your previous session which websense which has updated its DB to ban the URL and then assign it to a catergory. OR they have decided to ban Sports content which will be odd as youll get issues in other sites that iframe to sports networks

www.hidemyass.com [although Im sure that will be blocked lol] or a host of other free web proxies?

by **health4ni** on Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:38 pm

proxies do work, but trouble is they often cause the traffic to shoot way up due to the way they work. So, they may not see u using ESN but the traffic will spike when you do.

by **kp1512** on Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:44 pm

and majority of proxies on the web that are free have sniffers and are run by people who use it as a source of hacking!

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