How to Open Banned Sites

167 responses so far ↓

• yah, doesn't work // Jun 13, 2007 at 7:38 pm

  Chances are if you are behind a corporate firewall and can’t access your oh so important myspace page, chances are that you’re also blocked from using a proxy

• David Bradley // Jun 13, 2007 at 8:16 pm

  You could be right Mr Work. Any readers care to try phproxy from behind a heavy-duty firewall and report back?

• Antony Williams // Jun 17, 2007 at 1:36 am

  The-Cloak is certainly one way to do this..the other one I recommend is anonymouse. SInce I am in the software business I have found that esteemed colleagues in my market space have banned our domain from accessing. How silly is this in this day and age especially with such services available to help navigate around such blocks…

• amol // Jul 7, 2007 at 11:29 am

  i wanna access gmail

• MANPREET // Jul 12, 2007 at 7:01 am

  hi this is manpreet from dubai.
  last week UAE govt banned orkut.com
  i wanna access orkut
  i found my friends after 7 years on orkut onli
  i dunno wanna lose them
  can anyone tell me the way to access it
  i will b thankful to u
  thanx

• David Bradley // Jul 12, 2007 at 11:08 am

  Manpreet, I will try and look into this…not sure about accessing password-protected websites via a proxy, but there may be a way…

  d

• charli // Jul 24, 2007 at 8:44 pm

  both of those websites are blocked here at my college so they were useless to me

• David Bradley // Jul 25, 2007 at 8:01 am

  Charli, phproxy and the-cloak themselves are blocked? That is unfortunate. I am sure an enterprising young student can work out the search terms needed to look for alternatives.

• Invincible. // Aug 1, 2007 at 1:10 pm

  Guys …. I have a better alternative to Orkut……………………………………………………………………………. FACEBOOK…Get registered…

• David Bradley // Aug 1, 2007 at 4:46 pm

  Sure thing, Facebook beats Orkut for most people. Anyone got any experience of not being able to access it from where they are. I know lots of employers are banning Facebook use, but don’t know whether or not that ban applies to Orkut. For more on when Facebook, Okut and blogging gets you fired.

• dylan // Aug 9, 2007 at 2:49 am

  they block all the proxy sites as well

• David Bradley // Aug 9, 2007 at 7:39 am

  All the proxy sites? You need to be more creative, search more deeply to find one that works.

• Non-tech-savvy // Aug 11, 2007 at 11:13 pm

  hey there,

  i have not been able to access facebook and youtube for 2 days now..and i have no idea why!
  i am using my home PC and it has always worked..i dont know whether anyone changed the settings but if they did, i have no idea what has been changed…

  pleaaaaaaaaaaaase help me…:(..my name is proof enough that i direly need help…

  thank you.

• natasha // Aug 22, 2007 at 12:30 pm

  I’m unable to access gtalk it is blocked here, we have a firewall on this site could you help me in providing a proxy site for gtalk

• David Bradley // Aug 22, 2007 at 2:28 pm

  Natasha, I suspect it is very unlikely that a proxy access route exists for services other than web pages, GTalk (Google Talk) as it is not a website.

  However, there are various tools out there that allow you to access different instant messenger services, such as Gaim or Pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im/), you could try one of those, it’s possible that your SysOp doesn’t have that one blocked via the firewall (or fireball you mentioned originally and I fixed)

• khan ji // Aug 23, 2007 at 7:51 pm

  anuone live in uae and want to open blocked website please email at ypas007@yahoo.com and i will guide him.

• kyle // Aug 30, 2007 at 11:26 pm

  i really wana see my friends on line and i can’t because it’s banned and i hate it
  plz plz plz help

• David Bradley // Aug 31, 2007 at 6:47 am

  kyle, can you give us a clue as to what, where, and how you are banned from seeing your online friends?

• David Bradley // Sep 20, 2007 at 11:34 am

  How about this approach, pinched from the Digital Inspiration site – Use a redirector like tinyurl.com or snipurl.com. Paste the banned URL into either of those sites to generate a tiny or snip url and then use that to visit the site. Often the address doesn’t change in the address box, so may circumvent the block on your system

  db

• David Bradley // Sep 22, 2007 at 12:10 pm

  Ajay, I’ve approved your comment. But, a quick warning to potential users of your system, I got an invalid certificate when I tried to open one of your links. Anyone with more daring-do who gives it a try could perhaps report back on an security issues they see. I am a bit wary that this is a phishing page and users might be duped. I’m also very dubious of any claims to disable firewalls before opening a site. You have been warned!

  That said, pagemod is banned in the UAE anyway…

  db

• Ajay // Sep 22, 2007 at 2:02 pm

  Hey David.

  There are many IPs..which we used to provide dynamic requests so that if any IP gets blocked ppl can surf through the open IPs.

  Some are tunneled thru secure and others through ordinary ones.So the certificate for the main domain is shared between our open Ips and pagemod.com and also a a blog v-funny.com to fool admins to get them into thinking ppl are surfing blogs(by just looking into the URL).

  Phishing attempt well definitely not we were once the most used proxy in UAE till it got blocked but couldnt strike back as well as before
  due to repeated DDOS on our servers (which of crse is fine now.)as we shifted to other servers and have cisco firewalls too installed.

  I know its blocked in UAE.Thats y i have provided some new domains.which will help to access them and the pagemod.com:1234 weburl will only work for home users(mostly in UAE{tested} and not for office users as their firewall will have blocked access to http thru other ports.So if disabled it will work.

  and as i said b4 secure server certificate is just shared between our IPs itself.

  I know its a bit loong explanation coz i was a bit worried by your comments coz its the first time i have got such a feedback after these many months.

  Ajay

• ann // Sep 23, 2007 at 10:22 am

  helpppppppp

  Unable to access orkut . as soon as i type orkut a bubble reads orkut is banned u fool the administrators did not do it guess who did it?? muhahaha
  it is not banned in our place.

• lee // Sep 24, 2007 at 11:06 am

  i cant open orkut.com it showing that web site is banned so please help me

• David Bradley // Sep 24, 2007 at 11:25 am

  Okay. Here’s the deal. If you cannot open a particular site, please leave more details in your comment. Specifically – where you are trying to access the site from and which site it is. Also, please tell us what you have already tried and confirm that you have worked through all the various possibilities outlined in this post. Once you’ve done that, then I or another reader might then be able to help.

  db

• Nicola // Oct 1, 2007 at 4:18 pm

  Think facebook is about to be banned in the UAE, it has been out of service for 2 days now, though my friends who apparently have a London server in their office are still able to access it. I have tried both proxys mentioned above. Both are banned in the UAE, along with pretty much everything else. Talk over messenger very rarely works and Skype is also banned. Westerners beginning to feel extremely isolated over here…

• Keith // Oct 1, 2007 at 4:51 pm

  OK tried all the usual proxys – but unless they are dynamic no go as the same people who find them sell the info to the firewall people… does anyone know of any way to get past the UAE Etisalat proxy/firewall so I can keep in touch with my friends n family on Facebook?

• David Bradley // Oct 1, 2007 at 6:04 pm

  Keith, Nicola, everybody. It does seem like almost every loophole is now closing on people in UAE. It seems that fewer and fewer of the options given in this post now work. If anyone has any new ideas, please post them here. Maybe there is still one workaround that actually works.

  db

• Ronald Mojica // Oct 3, 2007 at 6:14 am

  hello i have this new proxy site you can use it , sky is the limit

  TheRealProxy.info, allow you to bypass restricted sites at work, school or college, including unblocking sites like MySpace, Bebo, Facebook and plenty more! The best thing is that we are free and simple to use, so check it out and tell your friends!

  i hope you enjoy my proxy site..

  http://therealproxy.info

• David Bradley // Oct 3, 2007 at 7:23 am

  If any readers try Ronald’s link, perhaps they could report back with their experiences…

  db

• GameBoy // Oct 3, 2007 at 1:27 pm

  hi there having a problem opening facebook it’s been banned in all ukzn campuses help ASAP
  really want to go on

• David Bradley // Oct 3, 2007 at 1:39 pm

  GameBoy, have you tried the various proxies and hacks given in this post?

  db

• rohan // Oct 11, 2007 at 9:24 am

  Unable to access orkut . as soon as i type orkut a bubble reads orkut is banned u fool the administrators did not do it guess who did it?? muhahaha
  I tried using proxut.com but does not work

• David Bradley // Oct 11, 2007 at 10:11 am

  Rohan, that message is caused by a worm that has infected your computer.

  Here’s how to fix it

• rohan // Oct 12, 2007 at 6:48 am

  i’ve got another method .press alt+ctrl+del windows task manager will open, click on new task, a new window appears type http://www.orkut.com it opens your default internet browser and you can access the site, minimize the task manager

• David Bradley // Oct 12, 2007 at 7:45 am

  Rohan, that probably works to circumvent the call, but you must realise: your computer security has been compromised by a worm, virus, or trojan, which is why you have seen that particular “error” message. It’s not just a case of getting around it. You need to remove it, urgently. It could be doing far worse things that popping up mock error messages, it could be sending your bank details and other information to a hacker. Visit the link I mentioned, get the fix. Be safe.

  db

• David Bradley // Oct 12, 2007 at 10:47 am

  Thanks for those new links Mr Real Proxy. I cannot personally vouch for any links included by commenters on this post, but if anyone wishes to try them and report back please do.

• MANPREET // Oct 15, 2007 at 5:03 am

  plz help me out i still can not acess orkut.
  what shall i do?
  i heard about hotspot shield launch
  but that is also not working
  & 1 more thing the proxy sites u gave to us also blocked in 2-3 days.
  & that sites dont allow us to sand scraps
  plz hepl meeeeeeeeeeeeeee

• David Bradley // Oct 15, 2007 at 7:18 am

  They seem to close loopholes faster than they can be opened. I’m not sure whatelse to suggest if you’ve tried *all* of the various methods here. Any readers got any more ideas?

• Goki // Oct 18, 2007 at 10:15 am

  Heheheheh! These websites simply rule! Thanks for your efforts. bye bye imperialist, fascist work environment…

• Jessica // Oct 19, 2007 at 2:57 pm

  my school has everything blocked just about. i was able to get through the firewall last year but i cant get through this year. I’ve tried all the links above but none of them work!! Does anyone have any other websites i should try??

  Please help me find some websites!!

• David Bradley // Oct 23, 2007 at 4:12 pm

  Matt M alerted me via Pownce to a domain he created as an anti-filter system – prx.nu

• shiravan // Oct 29, 2007 at 1:15 am

  Why is Orkut banned in Dubai? To what purpose? Because of this I can’t meet now my friends on orkut we made some communities there…Orkut will be back in UAE in a few days maybe the end of November.

• kev // Oct 31, 2007 at 6:45 am

  Hi there, im not able to access youtube with a proxy, it loads the page but doesnt show the vid. I try to ping it but it doesnt work.

• David Bradley // Oct 31, 2007 at 7:58 am

  Kev, have you tried the various solutions, including proxies and anonymizers discussed here? There are lots to try, hopefully one will work.

  db

• thanga03vel // Nov 13, 2007 at 1:44 am

  hey there,

  i have not been able to access orkut and youtube for 2 days now..and i have no idea why!
  i am using my home PC and it has always worked..i dont know whether anyone changed the settings but if they did, i have no idea what has been changed…

  plz… help me… hw 2 open the orkut website….

  thank you.

• David Bradley // Nov 13, 2007 at 8:25 am

  Well, Thanga, your query is not about a site being banned, so presumably none of the tips on this post helped. Without additional information it is impossible to tell what kinds of settings may have been changed.

  Did you install any software, antispyware programs perhaps? Did you edit your hosts file? Did you simply use the wrong password? Are you on a network for someone else is admin and who may have installed a new firewall/filter system? Presumably, you can access all other sites fine?

  A clue would be useful.

  db

• sunil // Nov 13, 2007 at 11:03 pm

  Hi David and all,

  I tried all the above sites, but i cant still access gmail or any other mailing sites neither i can access messengers from my office.

  Help pls!

  Sunil

• pwnt // Nov 15, 2007 at 12:32 am

  Well the reason some of those websites don’t work is because of the filters, some advanced filters automatically detect and block these sites because they contain the word proxy, surfing, etc.

• destinee // Nov 16, 2007 at 8:09 pm

  why cant i get on myspace……………..

• David Bradley // Nov 16, 2007 at 8:18 pm

  Who knows destinee? Do you have the right URL, is your brain plugged in? I won’t approve your other comment, but readers can probably guess that was a little insolent to say the least based on my response to your approved comment.

• David Bradley // Nov 20, 2007 at 3:38 pm

  Amit Agarwal has a nice post on how to do stuff like watching Youtube videos, Instant Messaging from within Office, reading blogs even if there is a company ban on websites, listen to music on your home computer from work and a few other things. But just make sure you don’t get caught or can cover your back if you do, I’m not joking, the repercussions could be serious if you break company rules…or the law.

• k // Nov 26, 2007 at 2:22 pm

  ummm i dont kno why they block dese websites there isnt anything wrong wit them because it aint like we cant get on it at home its the same thing here at school that there is at home so really i dont kno why they are blocking them peace out!!!!so somebody needs to come out wit an website that we can access!!!!

• David Bradley // Nov 26, 2007 at 2:31 pm

  k, not everyone who faces banned websites has access at home either, many of these sites we take for granted are banned at the government level in some parts of the world.

• Zeralya // Nov 28, 2007 at 5:59 pm

  fyi… was accessing orkut via a proxy… and now its blocked… seems like there is someone in etisalat (UAE) also checking ways to bypass orkut and then BLOCKING the proxy??? so when we give suggestions here… then they also have access to it! this place is crazy

  atleast i can connect to facebook… but for how long???

• rajkumar // Nov 30, 2007 at 5:03 am

  i had the same problem of opening orkut site. plzzzzzzzzzzzz help me.

  i want to access this site.

• Ashley // Dec 6, 2007 at 5:08 pm

  For all the people who want to access orkut in UAE.Use this program called Hotspot Shield,u can find it in download.com
  This program has a very high success rate of getting it right.

• shelin // Dec 9, 2007 at 10:49 am

  i have the same problem of opening orkut plz help me plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

• Gurjeet Singh // Dec 10, 2007 at 6:22 am

  I have the same problem to open orkut.

  Please help me

  Gurjeet

• Assban // Dec 23, 2007 at 12:46 pm

  Chances are that most of the web proxies will be blocked when they become popular.

• TINU // Dec 26, 2007 at 11:29 am

  I have a problem in accessing orkut

• karteek // Jan 4, 2008 at 6:52 am

  i am unable to access these websites they were blocked in my college, please send me some proxie to open those websites

• ASGHER // Jan 6, 2008 at 8:20 am

  Whats the hell going on with UAE authorities? They do not ban their local tv channels but block internet websites. How could they harm them. I am not able to understand. Necessary steps should be taken in right direction not blocking useful websites like orkut facebook hi5 regards AZ

• Brandon // Jan 8, 2008 at 6:52 am

  i found hotspot shield does the trick. good for browsing, and accessing denied sites. Can get latest version here: hotspotshield.com

• David Bradley // Jan 8, 2008 at 7:38 am

  Brandon, thanks for highlighting Hotspot Shield, as chance would have it, I am currently reviewing that piece of software right now. More on the results later.

  db

• David Bradley // Jan 12, 2008 at 6:09 pm

  If anyone tries Ajay’s solutions, be sure to report back and let us know how you got on.

  db

• David Bradley // Jan 18, 2008 at 5:27 pm

  I hate to admit this but there was a typo in the phproxy link in the original item – proper link is http://phproxy.org let me know how you get on with it.

  db

• Spartan // Jan 21, 2008 at 8:07 pm

  what do u do when your school blocks the sites that are supposed to get around being blocked

• David Bradley // Jan 21, 2008 at 9:50 pm

  Spartan, I think it’s then time to join a sports team, take up cycling or climb a mountain instead!

  db

• laura // Feb 1, 2008 at 11:52 am

  our school has blocked all proxy avoidance websites and it is now near impossible to access websites like facebook we were able to access facebook from websites like gnomefort.com is blocked!!! n we was on it yday!!

• An // Feb 6, 2008 at 2:57 am

  hi , i get the following address http://localhost:9100/proxy.pac in the adress box of lan settings … everytime i have to uncheck it and enter valid ip address in proxy server .. though i tried to disable this automatic configuration but no use …
  Can you tell me why is such address displayed?

• David Bradley // Feb 6, 2008 at 7:36 am

  An, quick answer is to uninstall Google Web Accelerator, this is an essential component of that system. Remove it and you’ll be good.

  db

• An // Feb 6, 2008 at 2:48 pm

  what if i dont want to uninstall google web accelerator .. i feel it does speeds up the process..
  Still thank you so much for helping me , the technicals here were not able to detect it

• David Bradley // Feb 6, 2008 at 3:15 pm

  An, I will do some more probing and when I find an answer I will put together a blog post to help you and anyone else with this problem. I suspect that there will be no simple solution other than to have a separate login on your PC that disables Google Accelerator while you’re using functionality that requires this proxy.pac file to be disabled.

  db

• Nick // Feb 8, 2008 at 10:59 am

  I am struggling to access myspace in college, it comes up with a weird saftey message which you can’t accept when you use myspace with a proxy, does myspace not want people to use proxys or something?? some proxys are actually band in college for well being proxys. Here is a proxy i use “www.skunkrox.org”

• David Bradley // Feb 8, 2008 at 11:37 am

  Hotspot Shield is getting lots of great feedback. I’ve tried it myself and it circumvents nannying firewalls quite well, including the lingerie filters on OpenDNS systems, which meant shopping for Valentine’s was relatively painless on my SOHO network.

  db

• David Bradley // Feb 8, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  I doubt very much that MySpace or any other site that requires a login would recommend anyone use a proxy to access its services. The proxy represents something of a security risk to those sites as well as a security risk to your own personal details and login. To be frank, these sites are banned in school and in the workplace for a reason…you’re there to learn or work, not to socialize, surely?

  db

• twon // Feb 18, 2008 at 6:52 am

  i try to access facebook through these proxy sites you listed but even when the login site appears, i try to login in and it still fails. no website you’ve listed seems to work

• David Bradley // Feb 18, 2008 at 8:18 am

  @Twon – I’m afraid you’re stuck, then. Obviously, whoever doesn’t want you to access those site has battened down the hatches pretty tight. Of course, you could just wait till you get home rather than wasting time on stuff you’re not supposed to be using while at school or work.

  db

• ravinder // Feb 18, 2008 at 9:40 am

  how can i get to open yahoomail because i cannot understand it is completly new to me , i have face this problem first ever

• David Bradley // Feb 18, 2008 at 9:51 am

  Ravinder, first, have you actually got a Yahoo Mail account? If not signup for one. Yahoo has a nice simple FAQ on doing that and a walkthrough showing you exactly how to login and grab your mail.

  db

• Lee Shaoran // Feb 21, 2008 at 5:26 am

  I hope that someone can post more proxy here

  Lee

• David Bradley // Feb 21, 2008 at 7:40 am

  Lee, I’m sure they will. By the way, your original comment was spam and was cleaned up by our antispam uber-filters, sorry.

  db

• Alina // Feb 21, 2008 at 11:01 am

  Hey David

  I saw this service from pagemod.com { the site i got thru someones comments on this page.} and in that they have started something like a virtual desktop proxy which gives access to any site they claim.

  That may end everyones probs with “login not working”,orkut blocked etc”

• David Bradley // Feb 21, 2008 at 2:07 pm

  Cool. I’ll check it out, thanks for the heads up.

  db

• unmesh // Feb 22, 2008 at 11:30 am

  i m not5 able to open the orkut

• ankita // Mar 6, 2008 at 5:34 am

  Orkut is a social networking website to bring people together. But it is banned in most schools, colleges and offices. Here, I discuss a few ways to open Orkut even when it is banned

  ankita’s last blog post..Seven ways to open orkut

  Ankita

• David Bradley // Mar 6, 2008 at 7:55 am

  Thanks for the link Ankita, I included an edited snippet from your blog post to make it clearer what you are offering.

  db

• Sunil // Mar 10, 2008 at 6:58 pm

  Can anyone tell me

  how can i reaccess http://www.orkut.com?
  NO proxy sites r working

  how can i get red of it?
  it showing this msgs
  “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!”

• David Bradley // Mar 10, 2008 at 7:07 pm

  Sunil, you caught a virus… check out this post

  Let us know how you get on

  db

• Ankit // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:51 pm

  Really thanks to you. U have made it so easy to surf the Orkut that banning these sites in ecampus will not harm any student like me.

• kavya // Apr 12, 2008 at 8:36 pm

  thank you very much. kaspersky internet security was keeping me outta youtube…. but not anymore…!

• David Bradley // Apr 13, 2008 at 9:06 am

  Glad to be of service Kavya

  db

• Clare // Apr 28, 2008 at 3:59 pm

  can anyone tell me a proxy site that isnt blocked? I need bebo urgently

• David Bradley // Apr 28, 2008 at 4:18 pm

  Clare, running a virtual private network (VPN) with Hotspotshield or something similar is probably the only way to get around the issue, but VPNs may be banned too. Can’t it wait till you get home? It puzzles me as to why people who are at school or at work are so desperate to get on to their social media sites. But, then I work from home so it’s not an issue at all for me, there’s no boss or teacher to block me

  db

• S Peters // Apr 29, 2008 at 2:23 am

  i downloaded hotspot shield so that i can access abc family and watch the shows online from outside of the us… for some reason it is not connecting anymore —- i dont know if anyone knows how to use/fix this but it tells me Disconnected [auth failure] when i try and connect —- if there is another way to watch the shows from outside of the us please let me know… i just fell in love with the show Falcon Beach and cannot find it anywhere else online!

• David Bradley // Apr 29, 2008 at 7:34 am

  SPeters, most likely problem (if it were working previously) is that your Firewall is blocking it. Reset your firewall settings for this program and when you fire it up be sure to allow the IP/network.

  db

• Mina // May 8, 2008 at 9:03 am

  Hey people,
  I have tried many proxys to access facebook. I cannot accept or confirm a friend it says at the bottom it says error on page. Everything else works except this feature. Can anyone help

• David Bradley // May 8, 2008 at 9:41 am

  That sounds like a scripting error. Log out, clear your browser cache, and log back in, try the friend again. Make sure you’ve enabled scripts for Facebook if you’re running an addin like NoScript.

  db

• nishad // May 9, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  my “orkut”site is banned for my pc ; its not allow me to open via proxy server ; so give me some other idea to solve this problem

• David Bradley // May 9, 2008 at 7:53 pm

  Have you tried a virtual private network (VPN)? Have you checked it’s not virus?

  db

• hemant // May 22, 2008 at 9:57 am

  Can anyone tell me

  how can i reaccess http://www.orkut.com?
  NO proxy sites r working

  how can i get red of it?
  it showing this msgs
  “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!”

• David Bradley // May 22, 2008 at 2:03 pm

  Hemant, you got an infection, read the above comments, this has been covered here at least once before.

  db

• Manpreet // Jun 1, 2008 at 1:07 pm

  Hey frns,
  today images.orkut.com is also blocked now…..can any one plz tell me 1 way to access orkut here in u.a.e.

• David Bradley // Jun 2, 2008 at 10:52 am

  Manpreet, some kind of proxy or virtual private network is apparently the only way…

  db

• Mandaxpistxofhaych // Jun 19, 2008 at 2:39 pm

  Fed up..bored..wantin to update me bebo and every proxy websyt blockedd arghh!1! oh.thu.agony!!!!!!!!!

• David Bradley // Jun 20, 2008 at 8:35 am

  Hotspot Shield is the way to go, if you can install it on your machine and allow a VPN to get past your firewall.

• swarna.s // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:25 am

  hot spot shield was installed on my machine but after that i am not not able t open any of the sites also yahoo messenger is also not opening.pls advice me on this issue.

• David Bradley // Jun 24, 2008 at 11:32 am

  Swarna, did you check your Firewall, you’ll have to allow the hotspot shield virtual private network to tunnel through your firewall.

  However, it may be that even Hotspot has somehow been blocked by your IT department.

• kashinath // Jun 27, 2008 at 4:24 pm

  i cant open orkut side. i m in UAE. PLS help how i can open orkut here. my friends sending me a scrap but i cant open this.

• David Bradley // Jun 29, 2008 at 8:15 pm

  Can anyone access Orkut in UAE? Care to share techniques?

• David Bradley // Jul 2, 2008 at 10:40 am

  One extra tip. Some filtering software is not smart enough to realize that you could use the secure form of the URL. So, instead of typing http://myblockedsocialspaceburk.com, or similar, try https://myblockedsocialspaceburk.com, substituting the actual domain you wish to access for my silly made up site.

• rahul // Aug 8, 2008 at 11:08 am

  plz let me know how to open the blocked gmail.
  all proxies and translators are also blocked.

• RAJESH // Aug 22, 2008 at 4:51 am

  i am unable to access Orkut .

  NO proxy sites r working
  it showing this msgs

  Access to this page has been blocked as per Internet Policy

  Computer System (such as Internet, e-mail) are intended for business related activities. As per company Internet policy other uses are prohibited. Fraudulent, threatening, harassing or obscene messages and or material are to be avoided and not to be received, sent or stored. Inappropriate mass mailing (spamming or flooding) is prohibited . Creation or intentional distribution of computer viruses, worms or trojan horses is prohibited. Any voilation will be dealt as per the company’s Internet policy. In case of any problems please contact Helpdesk.

  Please tell me effective way to access Orkut.

  Thnax.

• David Bradley // Aug 22, 2008 at 8:18 am

  Rajesh – I think you need to find a way to logon to Orkut other than at your place of work. A cybercafe perhaps? Home?

• RAJESH // Aug 22, 2008 at 10:32 am

  sir i am unable to go cybercafe because i am going to office 7.30 am and came back near about 9.00 pm and at my room have no PC to use so please tell me a solution to who i can access orkut at office.

  Tnanx.

• David Bradley // Aug 22, 2008 at 12:11 pm

  Don’t you get a lunch break? Those are long hours you’re working. But more to the point, if your boss doesn’t want you accessing such systems then there’s not a lot you can do about it and maybe you shouldn’t as you could end up getting fired.

• kshitij // Aug 28, 2008 at 11:41 am

  hi david, hey here is me a dishearted prson who usd 2 b a gr8 chattin freak….but nw i hv cum 2 a college where i cant chat wid evn my frnds, or make nu frnds….pls help me out cozz orkut is been bloked out here so r proxies….a blocking named trend micro scan cums in btw me n orkutiing. n i cant go 2 cafe or blog at home cozz i live in hostel. pls suggest me a better proxy 4 using in collg. if u do so many of my frnd wld also b happy wid ur help.
  waitin 4 ur reply

• parth singh // Sep 11, 2008 at 6:53 am

  hey dudes im a coll student in India our college has banned facebook,orkut,cloak,pidgin and all the sited referred on this page to bypass the proxy.
  HELP ME!!!! SOS

• David Bradley // Sep 12, 2008 at 9:44 am

  If you want to download applications/programs that are blocked by your company/school firewall, you could take a look at Download at Work highlighted today by gHacks.

• Tejas // Sep 13, 2008 at 12:10 pm

  i am not able to open orkut

  it says orkut is banned please dont acess it

• Mohit // Sep 16, 2008 at 9:28 am

  plz let me know how to open the blocked orkut.

• Nitin // Oct 5, 2008 at 12:29 pm

  I am unable to access orkut and adult sites.

  Pl guide.

• royal sudheer chowdary // Oct 7, 2008 at 8:34 am

  hai boys and lovly girls ,, i am royal sudheer chowdary ..
  my net provider blocked the orkut site .
  orkut home page is opening. but after sign in i am not getting my orkut page .. what i have to do …
  if any on knows then send the solution …

• Thasim Rehman // Oct 7, 2008 at 4:23 pm

  David I have read all the questions and answers listed above.I would say they could use ultrasurf a powerfull proxy tool which will bypass all the filters. It’s 100% effective in UAE. You can download it from http://www.downloads.com. And its free.

• BUTCH // Oct 10, 2008 at 8:31 pm

  hi,
  i am using anchor hotspot here in UAE but 3 days ago its already prohibited and banned….is there any other way….or an equal software that can open banned sites.

  thank you

• Alina Mary // Oct 12, 2008 at 6:49 pm

  I have used many proxy sites over the years be it PHP CGI glype watever,
  Nowadays none seem to bypass the ever strong filters{ websense, K9 , bess},
  some things one should observe when looking for a proxy site:

  -Shouldn’t be a .info { filters by default block them coz most are proxy sites}
  -Shouldnt contain the words proxy or others like myspace,orkut,bebo in it. { they keyword filter those}
  -On the safe side should be a SSL encrypted ones {https sites filter find them difficult to scan}
  -Should be a reputable provider and provide fresh domains update {So that proxy owners dont steal our information,
  face the fact domains will get blocked eventually, so its necessary to provide new ones.}
  -I would recommend CGI proxy , even if they are time consuming they give the desired results.

• David Bradley // Oct 13, 2008 at 7:54 am

  Thanks for the tips Alina Mary. Very useful.

• shweta // Oct 13, 2008 at 1:58 pm

  hi friends
  i want a help from all of u
  there is a trouble in my computer accully
  my youtube and orkut is ban
  and when i`ll try to open it one dialog
  box appeares in which a messeage is written
  is that”youtube is banned you fool,The administrators didnt write this program guess who did????” yes exactly this kind of language is written and after this a big laugh herd “muhhhahaa” like this .
  so plzzzzzzz guys help me out from this problem
  i m waiting for the result
  i`ll be very thankfull if u pay attention on my words
  thanx

• David Bradley // Oct 13, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  You got a virus Schweta…read the previous comments and links for similar problem seen for Firefox users as opposed to Youtube users.

• Ajay // Oct 22, 2008 at 7:36 pm

  Currently i use foreverunblocked from pagemod.com proxies.They have both CGI and PHP proxies in them. Very Reputable,SSL enabled, does provide new domains by just sending a mail to pagemod@gmail.com

  I have used many proxy sites over the years be it PHP CGI glype watever, Nowadays none seem to bypass the ever strong filters{ websense, K9 , bess}, some things one should observe when looking for a proxy site:

  -Shouldn’t be a .info { filters by default block them coz most are proxy sites}
  -Shouldnt contain the words proxy or others like myspace,orkut,bebo in it. { they keyword filter those}
  -On the safe side should be a SSL encrypted ones {https sites filter find them difficult to scan}
  -Should be a reputable provider and provide fresh domains update {So that proxy owners dont steal our information,
  face the fact domains will get blocked eventually, so its necessary to provide new ones.}
  -I would recommend CGI proxy , even if they are time consuming they give the desired results.

  Happy Browsing , Hope I was of some help

• David Bradley // Oct 23, 2008 at 7:45 am

  Ajay, the link you provided, is not secure, it generates an “invalid security certificate”, so I have removed the URL. But, more to the point it was a “.info” link, the kind of link you recommend not using! In general, your comments are acceptable and I was interested to visit your blog and see mention of GMail canned responses.

• ashish // Oct 25, 2008 at 12:25 pm

  plz send me some proxies that can unblock the orkut well

  thaxxxx

• candice // Nov 17, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  please help my company has blocked every way possible to get into facebook please help !!! with a link to get into facebook !! thanks

• David Bradley // Nov 17, 2008 at 6:23 pm

  Candice…you really cannot wait till you get home to check out your Facebook page?

• maliha // Nov 23, 2008 at 4:27 am

  hey…….im nt able to acess my orkut account …..whenever i click on it prompts a message orkut is banned you fool plz help me………….

• James // Nov 25, 2008 at 5:01 am

  At my school we have “Netspace” which just filter rejects pretty much 70% of what we try do. The kids have used Gnomefort.com but I’ve just tried it recently and it is now filter rejected. Most of the people go onto MySpace through something else but I’m not sure of the site they use and every time I want to check something up it’s filtered. I’ve tried most of the links you have given me but Netspace has already rejected them -.-

  Can anyone else please suggest another site to bypass all the filters thanks.

• guru // Dec 22, 2008 at 5:05 am

  i cant open orkut.com it showing that web site is banned so please help me
  please tell me ……..david you tell…….
  how to open banned orkut….

• Mahy // Dec 24, 2008 at 7:39 am

  Can anyone tell me

  how can i reaccess http://www.orkut.com?
  NO proxy sites r working

  how can i get red of it?
  it showing this msgs
  “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!”

• alam // Dec 24, 2008 at 4:34 pm

  Please tell me how to open banned sites in Saudi Arabia.

• Amit // Dec 27, 2008 at 5:29 am

  Hi there!!

  Found the whole post very interesting, well I am too facing the problem to open the restricted sites.

  I am unable to open any website which contains any word like chat and mail.

  The whole security is very tight, I used various proxy sites, IP numbers to hack the security but not able to achieve success.

  Please help me out… as I am not able to open Gmail, Yahoo sites to check my email. Even I tried to connect it through Outlook but still starving..

  Any help will be appreciated.

• manaf khan // Jan 7, 2009 at 8:04 pm

  i am unable to open the site which is having name orkut in it please look in to this

• Duncan // Jan 11, 2009 at 10:00 am

  Were currently at worksite with all web are blocked, foruming and other related web, try to use kproxy , vtunnel that the way we reach before but unable…anyone can advise…?

• bad boy // Jan 19, 2009 at 10:20 pm

  please save my orkut my orkut is banned

• Rajib Koley // Jan 21, 2009 at 12:36 pm

  How To Open Orkut Site? Please Help?

• Azhar Ali // Jan 24, 2009 at 10:52 am

  Hi this is Azhar from saudi arabia. Saudi govt. has banned orkut & some illegal sites. But i really want to open such sites. The information you provided me i.e. phproxy.org is also blocked

  So.plz david help me to get out of this issue.

  Awaiting for yr reply.

  Regards
  Azhar Ali
  Saudi Arabia.

• Neil // Jan 27, 2009 at 7:59 pm

  Ultrasurf (mentioned by someone above) works very well. It is a small self-contained program that requires no installation–just open it and go.

  If you use MSIE nothing else is required. If you use Firefox or some other browser you will need to go into the browser’s network configuration and set the proxy to IP 127.0.0.1 Port 9666.

  There are a few sites–not many–that Ultrasurf’s own servers block. But popular sites such as Facebook are no problem.

• abhishek // Feb 11, 2009 at 10:55 am

  m abhi yahoo messenger cam is not opening in our hostel as the site is blocked here. yahoo messenger is working but not the cam. its showing network error

  can u just help me in veiwing others webcam.

  and also how to open orkut?

• Mukhlis92 // Jun 19, 2009 at 8:42 am

  Hye!In my school,theres really a lot of website that can’t be open for instance youtube.com Can anyone tell me how to access it witnout any blocking?All proxy website has been baned by my country govt.

• rohan // Jun 26, 2009 at 7:36 am

  for two three days i have not open orkut and youtube so please friends when you solve this problem please call me on my id i will help you

• Ajju // Jun 30, 2009 at 12:39 pm

  Hi David, this is my 2nd message to you & i ask you same questions how could i open Orkut & some banned sites.

  Please help me bro……..

• saman // Jul 1, 2009 at 1:24 pm

  the site doesnot open at our school and the proxies are also not of any help.pleease help me to access facebook!!!!!pllzzzz

• shiva // Jul 14, 2009 at 11:24 am

  hai david
  i am shiva. i would like to know how to open the banned sites in our college sites like youtube,gtalk,yahoo messenger,orkut etc. i am waiting for ur reply …

• siju // Aug 23, 2009 at 11:10 am

  i am siju i would like to know how to open the banned sites in our college sites like youtube,gtalk,yahoo messenger,orkut etc. i am waiting for ur reply …

• chanda // Sep 4, 2009 at 12:53 pm

  how can open orkut.when i was type orkut the display are” orkut is banned you fool… “

• sudhanshu // Sep 7, 2009 at 3:56 pm

  hello…sir
  pls tell me how to open a orkutbanned in college so which tell me particular procedure to strt a orkut
  i will vry thankful for u.;.

• montu // Sep 9, 2009 at 12:03 pm

  i cant use social net working sites on comp. centre of my college….
  and i cant use proxy server too…………
  and in these computers, linux is installed,
  what can i do to use orkut, face book?????

• Jim // Oct 1, 2009 at 11:19 pm

  Wow what a great thread. I’d like to make a couple of points that might help,

  Firstly the most content blocking/filtering technology now uses combinations of specific urls and analyses the content of your browsing (remember HTTP is all in clear text) as such a remote proxy won’t help you that much with the likes of websense.

  You do need to use some sort of encryption to bypass the content filters like websense for instance the vpns mentioned by david.

  Most big organisations willl have ensured you can’t modify the proxy settings in your browser, and their firewall will block all outgoing internet traffic – ie on 80 and 8080 to anything but the IP address of the official proxy server.

  You either have to tunnel through the proxy or leave through another port that isn’t blocked – e.g an SSL or SSH tunnel.

  Cheers
  Jim

• Archie // Oct 21, 2009 at 6:23 pm

  plzz help me…in my college orkut,gtalk,yahoo banned …i want to check my scrap but its banned plz..tell me how to do this plzzz…i really very thnkful to you..

• Akin // Oct 22, 2009 at 5:21 pm

  Facebook, youtube and various other sites have been banned in China. I’ve only had access to them by using a proxy client called Tor. Tor is a user-based proxy which can only work providing some one bridges your connection to the host. Unfortunately I havn’t been able to access the Tor server for a few days now as no one is able to bridge my connection. Just some advice though; it has worked in the past for me and i suspect it should do for others too.

• biru // Nov 20, 2009 at 9:11 am

  some one help me to open my banned orkut site.
  as soon i type orkut in web page there comes a notification (your orkut is banned guess who?) help
  me plz.

• tryzure // Dec 2, 2009 at 5:55 am

  I’m in China right now and they’ve blocked all kinds of sites especially the popular social networking sites that I use often. So I’m using “a site” [name redacted] to access these banned sites, honestly I can’t live without Facebook and Youtube!

• Screw K9 // Dec 13, 2009 at 1:23 am

  K9 has a proxy block on the site and many other anonymizers ive tried

• Gurkirat singh // Dec 17, 2009 at 10:05 am

  i am studying in NIIT they do not allow us to open orkut b’coz it is bann from the server so plzzzzzzzz tell me how to open it

• Nadia // Dec 30, 2009 at 3:53 am

  I cannot access facebook from work, not that i am often on it but a friend of mine put up some pictures of her daughter and i’d really like to see em there. Can someone help please?

• rk_sweetrascal // Jan 8, 2010 at 7:04 am

  pls assist me, orkut is banned in my campus….. suggest some sites to open orkut……

• rosy // Jan 11, 2010 at 2:56 pm

  im not able to open orkut site from home pc as the dialogue box appears saying orkut is banned from administrator. pls suggest steps to enable it successfully.

• David Bradley // Jan 11, 2010 at 3:16 pm

  You’ve got a virus.