The idea of using facebook and other social network has become part of, if not all but virtually every employees. Unfortunately companies are aware of it, as a result companies restrict access to social networking sites using Firewalls like Netgear or Comodo.
Don’t worry whatever method they may use to block these sites, there is always a plan B,I understand what you feel when you want to catch up with your friends on Facebook and your company has blocked the site.
That feeling must be so irritating; some of you must have thought about resigning too I think.
Okay! Not resigning but surely you would have cursed your employer.
Am sure you must have had about Proxy Servers right? If not don’t panic
Well, a Proxy Server is that application or system in the network which acts as the middleman between the client and hosting server. Suppose you are using a proxy server and you visit a website, your request first goes to the Proxy server and then the proxy server gets the file or the webpage you requested.
In all your IP address or your details are not stored by the website you wanted to visit instead the website stores and tracks information of the Proxy Server.
Now how is this proxy server going to help you connect with your friends on Facebook using your office computer?
Your Office firewall has blocked all the computers from accessing social networking sites, but it hasn’t blocked your access to the proxy sites.
So In this Tutorial we are going to use one of the best and one of my favorite proxy servers, Hide My Ass.
The first thing you need to do is, visit hidemyass.com
On the homepage(the first page that opens is the homepage) you’ll see a URL box to do is just enter the URL of the site you want to visit.(www.facebook.com) and click on “Hide My Ass!”
. Now whenever you want to visit Facebook from your Office just go to hidemyass.com, enter the URL and click on “Hide My Ass!”
In our next tutorial we shall look into the permanent solution, rather than going through hidemy ass.
Finally i will like to add, if along the line hidemyass stop opening from your office computer, just have it at the back of your mind that The IT guy in your company had added hismyass as a restricted site to the company server. However if plan B doesn't work the alphabet has 26 letters, go to google.com and search for proxy server, you will see list of many select any one there and enter your URL, just as you did with hidmyass. good luck.
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