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How to unblock a blocked site

Usually, schools and companies use blocking software to block some websites from being visited by the students or employees. This is done for security reasons and to prevent the students and employees from spending a lot of time browsing through these websites and wasting the valuable time that is meant for study or for work. Some sites also have some viruses and spywares attached to them. Visiting these sites in your school or office with networked computers makes all the computers vulnerable from the infection and this may cost a lot of money to be cleaned that is why installing blocked software is an S.O.P. to most schools and workplace.

Unblocking the blocked site in your school or office may need a lot of trial and error although there are many proxies that you could try to use. If the proxies work then great! If not, there are some downloadable software that can solve your problem.

You could find lots of website proxies on the net and these proxies let you view blocked websites through them. You access the website through their site and your I.P. address would not be detected as the proxy lets you use a different I.P. address.

You could find website proxies just by doing a quick search on your favorite search engine. Just type in “website proxy” in your web browser and you will get results of sites that offer website proxies. You can try each one to see if they would work for you. Some of these proxies would work for you while some wouldn’t but that doesn’t mean that these proxies that do not work for you are not really working at all. Website proxies are also being blocked by firewalls and so finding which website proxy depends on your firewall protection too. If your firewall protection only blocks websites such as myspace, YouTube and the likes then you would find website proxies to be really handy in unblocking these sites.

Websense is the leading internet filtering product used by most companies and schools because of its strict and hard to bypass security protection system. With websense, website proxies normally don’t work. If you are allowed to download proxy software in your school or office pc, you can try those too. If they still don’t work for you, you may need to try other unblocking software and follow other strategies to unblock the blocked websites.

There are other techniques in unblocking websites that you can try. Unblocking websites differ depending on the firewall and other blocking software installed in the networked computers so if you really want to unblock some websites, you should try each of these techniques to see which ones would actually work for you.

One way of directing to a website is through their I.P. address. When you type in the website URL in your browser, the internet automatically detects this and it connects you to the site’s I.P. address. Because of this, you can go to the website through I.P. address. Not all websites can be redirected from their I.P. address though but still, this technique should also be tried out.

Have you noticed it sometimes that when you try to connect to a website, your web browser would alert you that you are being directed to an I.P. address? You can remember that I.P. address when you connect to your favorite sites when you’re using a different PC where there are no site blocking or you could just search for the I.P. address of the blocked website in your school or office. In order to do this, you would need the help of Whois. One site that will help you with this is http://cqcounter.com/whois/. You just type in the URL and click on Whois. It will give you the details for the domain including its I.P. address. Copy the I.P. address and paste it in your web browser and try if you could get in. Unfortunately, if the blocking software uses a reverse DNS, this technique will not work.

One other way of unblocking blocked websites is by using URL redirects. You can create URL redirects through websites like www.tinyurl.com. Creating a redirect site works because upon loading, the address bar shows the redirect URL and the real URL only show up after loading. This way of unblocking websites has worked for many people but unblocking websites is not always as easy as this so you would still have to check all your options in order to be successful with your unblocking.

One other trick for site unblocking is by using Google mobile. Go to www.google.com/mobile and click on “on a mobile device?” link found on the upper right hand corner of your browser. After you have been redirected, just key in the website URL that you want to visit on the search box to get Google search results. Click on the search result that would redirect you to your chosen website. This usually works because it transforms the HTML format into a mobile format and this normally confuses some blocking software because the page does not look the same and the format is already different.

All these are just some of the known techniques in unblocking the blocked sites in your school or office. If all of these failed, that means that whoever installed the firewall or blocking software already knows all these tricks and have blocked all the possible means of website unblocking. If this is the case, don’t fret. More and more unblocking techniques are being discovered regularly so you just have to keep yourself updated and when you’re lucky, you would find one tool that would help you in unblocking those websites.

Don’t forget though, they installed those blocking software for a reason. If you decide to unblock a blocked website, make sure you are not compromising the safety of your school or workplace. If you get successful in unblocking those blocked websites, be cautious because what you’re doing is not allowed and surely you wouldn’t want to get kicked out or fired so you have to be very cautious.