Bob

http://www.freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/cgi-proxy.htm

has a good list of proxy sites

but these two are good ones from that list - http://www.thestrongestlinks.com/

http://www.proxyweb.net/

hmmm....may slacking continue

Eskimo

blocked as of today

Bob

you tried the other proxy sites from above?

Eskimo

all gone this morning - I have been off all last week so I guess my department has been working hard .. I can no longer even get to my msn mail

Bob

that sucks....well i guess you ain't able to plonk in a proxy into the browser setting then either?

anotherlimey

I found a neat tool once, it's a proxy on the local PC which in turn uses proxies at random from a list you give it.

I'll see if I can find it....

anotherlimey

Might be useful for some people:

http://www.multiproxy.org/downloads.htm

Bob

there's a few plugin's that can do that for FF...thing is though at work, you might not be able to mess around with browser plugin's or install 3rd party software to do it...well if the network IT guy has any brains he wouldn't allow you access to do that at least

BigDavyG

At work your machine should not be directly connected to the internet, nor should the facility exist for you to be able to do this. Your machine will be connected to the company lan which will then use its own proxy server to funnel all internet access.
It doesn't matter what you do to your own machine as ultimately it should have no direct link to the outside world.

anotherlimey

Not completely true, but almost.

Bob

which was the point of those online proxy sites, connect to them, and then site connects through them...but if those sites are blocked, then there ain't much to do about it...

BigDavyG

Its not so much that the sites are blocked, its that in most businesses you will be unable to access the proxy site without first going through your work security.
I think you are implying that if you connect to the proxy that your work firewall will see only that connection and not the other sites that you are accessing via the external proxy but most systems are now sophisicated enough to cotton onto that trick. Ultimately if you are accessing a website the html file you are viewing has to come from the website of your desire, and this can be picked up.

Bob

I understand that...but these are basically proxy tunnel sites, they load a site within their own site, which is why there a bit shite if you want to get downloading or anything, but to bypass java chat or forums that might be blocked they tend to work quite well, unless that website is blocked itself, websense etc does seem to cotton on to them fairly quickly, espcially if your hanging out on the one proxy website often enough.