Does anyone know what 3com is

[Jimbob]

i am at school and the web pages i normally go to is banned and a thing of 3com comes up does anyone know how to get around it?

[Exedore]

The only 3com I know of makes networking hardware. You've probably encountered a site blocker, which most schools and many businesses have. The only way to get around it is to find a port number that it doesn't filter and set your connection to use a proxy on that port, or find a website that isn't blocked and can route other sites to you.

[Whiteknight]

Yes, but you do that and they catch you, you will probably be off the computer for the rest of the year.

BTW, how does everyone find time to go to all the sites in computer classes? My teacher watches everyone like a hawk and we do too much to look at sites. (I'm learning more photoshop there, and some movie editing :))

[Battlecruiser]

BTW, how does everyone find time to go to all the sites in computer classes? My teacher watches everyone like a hawk and we do too much to look at sites. (I'm learning more photoshop there, and some movie editing :))
Atleast you got to use the computer. We haven't even touched the computer and school is exactly 3/4s done. One more quarter of school to go and I bet all we are going to do is review for tests.

[SoldierPrime]

The only 3com I know of makes networking hardware. You've probably encountered a site blocker, which most schools and many businesses have. The only way to get around it is to find a port number that it doesn't filter and set your connection to use a proxy on that port, or find a website that isn't blocked and can route other sites to you.

same
but why would a 3com site be brought up unless there is a program installed on the computer which is associated with 3com and computers with programs are much easier to get around.

[blkmage]

Routers can block sites.
Heck, my Netgear router at home can block sites if I wanted it to. No extra software required.

[Graeme]

You could always try the age-old trick of pinging for the IP of the site you're after, and then just enter that into the address bar. It always works at my school, our tech people aren't the swiftest of cats.

If you don't know how to ping the site, just go start -> run -> type in 'command' -> hit enter -> A command prompt opens -> type 'ping [websitename without the http://]'

For example, typing:
ping www.warboards.org would work ^_^.

[blkmage]

That won't work if the school has disabled run though.
I've tried to run the command line because it's fun.

[SexForTwo]

Try without the www. prefix.

If all else fails, use a proxy.

[OboeGuru]

That won't work if the school has disabled run though.
I've tried to run the command line because it's fun.
Unless you're clever and know how to get into the command prompt using a batch file... ;)

[Whiteknight]

Whoa, this is getting out of my league. It's getting towards the hacker area.

[Jimbob]

it wont let me change ports lol

[Jimbob]

and it wont let me go to some of the ip addresses i wanted

[Jimbob]

guess what.... 3com is preventing me from getting my school work done

[WeekendLazyness]

Unless you're clever and know how to get into the command prompt using a batch file... ;)
Or if you are even more clever, you realize that cmd.exe is disabled, but command.com isn't and make a shortcut to it placed covertly on your drive because it's a bitch writing a new batch file for every command you want it to execute. Or you could make a shortcut to the graphical messaging system made by Novell. I swear, that's how stupid the security at our school is. There's a site on the webserver that allows you to upload files, and the server runs ASP.NET. It's insane.

[3laLEU]

hehe.. you can make so that the teacher can not see the sites you accesed:
after you dissconect clean the history and the cookies and then from
c:\windows\Temporary Internet Files\
delete everything.

[3laLEU]

everything is made by local administrator and you can do almost everything you want to do if you are/have the administrator user and passwors...