probably not unusual, for you folks in NC... but:

(1) i live on the west coast. no one's ever heard of TWW here.

(2) i used to be able to log in for the past year.

(3) all of a sudden it's now blacklisted and blocked with the standard reporting page

Quote :

" <Company Name> Internet Filtering and Reporting Access to this website is prohibited. For more information please read the <Company> Frequently Asked Questions document The workstation with IP address: <my computer IP> and userid: <my user ID> tried to access URL: http://thewolfweb.com/ on 2009-07-25 "Content categorization: Chat/Instant Messaging;Newsgroups/Forums;Nudity" "

so.... am i busted? should i start looking for a new job?





[Edited on July 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM. Reason : .]

7/25/2009 1:03:57 PM

Please post the Frequently Asked Questions.

7/25/2009 1:07:55 PM

brentroad.com ?

Quote :

"am i busted? should i start looking for a new job?"

if they fire you over something stupid like this, you needed a new job anyway

7/25/2009 1:08:39 PM

they probably have thousands of lines of logs of messages like that, that no one ever looks at.

7/25/2009 1:11:40 PM

you are so screwed......


I mean, getting caught going to sites like this one, at work, on a saturday.......

yeah, they're going to put you on double secret probation or something



and, no one looks at those logs unless there is a performance issue. At work, I've had ad's blocked from legitimate sites (NY Times, etc).

[Edited on July 25, 2009 at 1:42 PM. Reason : ]

7/25/2009 1:41:41 PM

well, actually, it started being blocked since last week.

i seem to run afoul of the filter off and on, but ive never seen TWW blocked.

i cant imagine anyone ELSE causing this site to come up on corporate IT radar.

7/25/2009 1:48:54 PM

Yup, they're watching you.

7/25/2009 1:52:00 PM

Surely this won't stop you

7/25/2009 2:06:05 PM

how big is your IT dept?

i'm a little concerned that my workplace is gonna shut me down at some point too. lord knows i register more pageviews here than any other single site in the whole company

[Edited on July 25, 2009 at 3:09 PM. Reason : doesn't matter though. i'll just rdp into home and get my fix there ]

7/25/2009 3:08:32 PM

doubt you are introuble. But I wouldnt push it.

Quote :

"Content categorization: Chat/Instant Messaging;Newsgroups/Forums;Nudity"

Thats why its blocked. They probably have a scanner, more than one hits it turns on, sees that and auto blocks it.

7/25/2009 3:12:42 PM

try brentroad.com

7/25/2009 3:24:57 PM

Quote :

"how big is your IT dept?"

pretty freaking huge i imagine.

actually i work at a subsidiary on West Coast, but main corporate is in the Midwest. theres a total of some 50K employees worldwide, and the corporate IT handles everyone.

so i guess it's not unreasonable that they might see hits going to TWW from other than me.

Quote :

"try brentroad.com"

yeah, until it's found out, too


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[Edited on July 25, 2009 at 3:26 PM. Reason : ]

7/25/2009 3:24:58 PM

try firefox portable
it's worked wonders for firewall deterrence

7/25/2009 3:39:41 PM

how is firefox portable going to make any difference? it's blocked before it ever gets to his computer.. it doesnt matter what browser he uses.

7/25/2009 4:05:36 PM

my workplace has a block which only appears to work in IE
I figure I'd best not ask such questions given my overlords' aversion to the use of any browser than IE

7/25/2009 4:30:24 PM

Yeah, IE has some settings you can mess with to block shit.. that's not a very smart way to do it but def one of the easiest.

[Edited on July 25, 2009 at 4:34 PM. Reason : (and not how his work place is doing it )]

7/25/2009 4:34:26 PM

https://btunnel.com

problem solved.

7/25/2009 7:24:52 PM

There's only one thing you can do.

Quit.

7/25/2009 9:13:07 PM

I was almost fired over TWW once.

And that's not to mention another job where I spent a whole day winning the egg hunt.

7/25/2009 9:18:15 PM

Tee was blocked for me but brentroad worked. Aren't these filters usually outsourced?

7/25/2009 9:24:41 PM

outsourced? wtf does that even mean?

no.

7/25/2009 9:28:10 PM

Hello

I am thanking you kindly to be you internet filter source. Please do not be hesitating to ask if you have any questions.

[/apu]

7/25/2009 9:31:49 PM

As in your IT department doesn't go to every website ever made and decide what you can and cannot have access to. I just assumed there was an outside firm that specialized in web filtering. I guess not.

[Edited on July 25, 2009 at 9:33 PM. Reason : ^nice]

7/25/2009 9:32:02 PM

no. you can filter on address, content, keywords, etc.

7/25/2009 9:34:39 PM

Ours definitely blocks any URL with the word game in it. You would think websites would stop putting game in the fucking URL

7/25/2009 9:39:23 PM

A lot of proxies IT departments use do download filtering addresses from any number of central sources, so yes, bobster, it does work that way to a point.

I'm not sure that TWW would be on any of those centralized databases, but it could be...

7/25/2009 10:32:19 PM

I wouldn't be surprised that a lot of IT dept's subscribe to standard and large filtersets run by third parties

where I used to work thewolfweb.com was blocked but brentroad.com wasn't

7/26/2009 12:20:13 AM

it's probably better to not tww at work, anyway

7/26/2009 12:30:11 AM

your boss totally got an automated email

7/26/2009 2:06:20 AM

Quote :

"it's probably better to not tww at work, anyway"

That's why I have Remote Desktop. There's a nice weakly-encrypted connection over which I can browse/post TWW if I need a 5-minute break.

7/26/2009 9:01:21 AM

If they block brentroad.com next, simply try entering the IP itself: 208.79.80.203. Lots of IT guys forget to block the IP too.

7/27/2009 2:33:58 PM

no, they get the IP. they're not incompetent.

7/27/2009 2:35:16 PM