our site has been flagged as "Malicious sites" by SmartFilter

[arb]

if you go to http://www.vwdiesel.net it is not flagged, but http://www.vwdiesel.net/forum/index.php is flagged preventing viewing from various large companies...

[lovinthedeez]

prolly cuz there are a lot of people, myself included, who waste company time looking at oil burners.   

[NintendoKD]

Guilty... errrr I plead the fifth

[maxfax]

The malicious part kinda makes me feel a bit warm and fuzzy..  But then again it could just be the man trying to keep us and our crazy good MPG's down....

[catlin_cava]

  Thats what I though down time was for at the office?

[zukgod1]

I must admit, I spend HOURS here while at work, Have done so for the last couple years..

For a while the site was blocked, well I'm good friends with a few of the IT guys so I asked quietly if they could Un-block it...BAM!!! I was back in business!!
One of them ran a report and told me I was here for 9 hours one day 

Oh well...

[mr.woods]

if you go to http://www.vwdiesel.net it is not flagged, but http://www.vwdiesel.net/forum/index.php is flagged preventing viewing from various large companies...

Thats how it was for me, but now they are both blocked!  Found out last night at work. Now what? I can only spend so much time on ebay.

[truckoSaurus08]

Used to be able to look at pictures at work now I cant . They must of figured out i've been spending too much time on this forum

[Turbinepowered]

Unlike you slackers, I never look at this site while I'm at work, ever ever ever.



Kinda hard to, when I don't have internet access on a bus. 

[catlin_cava]

Last summer when I signed up on this site i was working for a security firm at a mine....I signed up at 3AM and spent the first week on here all the time lol...I lost a couple hours of paper work one night because of this site But its ok. I know Alot more on VW lol

[macka]

You guys need to know how to use portals in the workplace.  It works as most IT guys won't block them so they can surf the net at work too.

[zukgod1]

You guys need to know how to use portals in the workplace.  It works as most IT guys won't block them so they can surf the net at work too.

Hints???

[arb]

portals, aka proxy servers are usually blocked by SmartFilter. That said, like girly photo sites, they can't possibly know about all of them. I was using http://translate.google.com to read Russian sites and with English > English as the conversion, so I was able to surf sites flagged as "Time wasters" for what ever reason. Now they have this google site flagged as a Proxy...   I tried to nudge the guy responsible for our filter appliance, but he would not take the bait.

As a computer security expert, I have setup and repaired these filters as was knee deep in it when it was created because the first woman that got millions because some guy was opening surfing the girly girly sites. "Hostile work environment" the lawyers call it.

I'm going through diesel withdraws at work now :-(

[vwjones]

you can get around our computers at work by downloading a copy of firefox mobile on a thumb drive and putting it into the usb port of the computer and surfing through the thumb drive without ever going through the company filters.  works at home too because it doesn't leave any history on your computer.  Not that anyone here has anything to hide

[arb]

Looks like we are no longer flagged. Thanks to whomever complained.