youtube.com is blocked at work now by a firewall

[CAMAROBOY69]

I get this message any time someone posts a link to a youtube video.
"Web Site Blocked by NETGEAR Firewall"
Any ideas of how I can bypass the firewall? Is it just on my PC or the entire company?

 

[DQuaN]

A Netgear firewall is going to be a hardware firewall. It will be blocking anyone going out through that gateway.

I'm not sure if you can get around that. One way to do it would be to log in and change the settings. I doubt very much that your company has left the default login details, but if they have, the user is 'admin' and the password is 'password'.

I wouldn't advise this though as you can get in a whole lot of trouble with your company.

 

[CAMAROBOY69]

Ok thats what I was afraid of. I guess I can no longer view any of the youtube videos at work then. 👎

 

[Pako]

Get a list of cool Work Related You-Tube videos at home. Bring the list in to show your boss as it's work related. When it doesn't work, suggest that since You Tube has such a vast array of work related videos that the IT department should allow You Tube for your office or branch.

Just a thought.

Good luck.

 

[sutton.a]

Go through a server proxy?

 

[toyomatt84]

Go through a server proxy?

Still has to pass through the Hardware Firewall, which would negate the content.

 

[ferrari_chris]

You could try an online proxy.

Generally how these things work is by blocking web traffic coming from a certain domain - in this case youtube.com.

By using an online proxy, your web traffic will be coming from there instead.

An example is nonymouse.com

Just chuck your URL (youtube.com or your direct link to your video in) and you'll be surfing You Tube in no time.

Of course, this probably completely goes against most of your company policies and is to be used at your own risk. And, it might just be a matter of time before nonymouse.com is blocked to, so don't bulk email the entire company with your new found trickery.

Also, there are some downsides: You will get one annoying pop-up per page, and you can't log in to any sites as the Sessions don't work properly.

Give it a shot and see if it works for you.

 

[Omnis]

http proxies are usually blocked. What you need to find is an https proxy.

 

[toyomatt84]

The more recent Netgear Firewall's that I've dealt with, blocked the majority of online proxies out there (including hidemyass.com, and many others). I do know that a few secure proxies have worked, but if there's traffic to a secure proxy than your company will know about it (if their network guy is somewhat competant in the least), and could easily fall victim to the banned url's list.