'back-door' into certain websites

[goonerboy]

hello, im at work frustrated as my head office has put lots of blocks on certain websites, ie.. ebay, football websites, FHM etc etc.. basically whenever i type in an address it says ' sport/jobs/shopping/auction sites/ lingerie/games are all banned.. Is there anyway around this so the search engine wont pick up the sites i want to look at.. for example if i go to a website & they have games on the site I can play them BUT if i type in anything with the word game - it blocks the site.. any help/ideas?

[WendyS]

You'll hate to hear this but I think if you're at work you're supposed to be earning your salary to do what they pay you for, not playing computer games and selling your personal possessions on EBay.. That kind of activity is for your own time when you're paying for the telephone line. If I were you and had time for this kind of activity I'd be worried. It suggests that you have too much time on your hands and that you're in the sort of job which would be the first cost cutting target in a redundancy programme.

[vehelpfulguy]

If your company have put this sort of restriction on you can bet they are doing other things as well.

It is possible to monitor how long each computer is on the internet, what sites they are looking at etc.

Dont be surprised if you get called into your managers office soon.

[rogerthomas]

We had a girl in our office not so long ago who was using the internet to browse non-work related sites. I suggested to her that she better be careful in case she got caught. Her reply was that the computer was on line all the time anyway (which was true) so it wasn't costing the company any extra. I told her that if I bought a newspaper and read it while I should have been working, that wouldn't have cost the company any extra either, but it would mean that I was not doing my job. She failed to see my point and no longer works here.

[fo3nix]

try an anonymous proxy, something like this:

http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html

type the URL you want to access in where it asks for it, and see if you can get past it that way.

Though as the above say, you really should be doing work while at work ;-)

[gastwo]

Well goonerboy, at least you got one answer to your question.

[tomd]

http://www.proxyweb.net/ as well, we used to use this one to get round a similar block at school.