It is content like this that will get my blog blocked at my school but I need to tell you anyway.

There are a bunch of ways to get around your school or workplace firewall, some work and others do not. The most basic of them all is to use what is called a proxy bypass website. This is a website that encrypts the URL of the website you are visiting and displays the page in your web browser. The downside to this is the website that you need to use may already be blocked and 90% of the time the page is not being displayed the right way.

The next way you can bypass the firewall is to use a portable web browser. Portable FireFox is a free portable version of the popular browser FireFox. All you need to do is install this program on your USB flash drive and run it off of that. All of your settings are saved to the folder that it was installed and it will not require one computer to run. Because most schools and workplaces just use Internet explorer they also setup the proxy settings in the settings of Internet Explorer. Because FireFox will not use a proxy by default it will skip the proxy server and go strait to the Internet. This can also make browsing faster because it is not waisting time going through the server.

Sometimes not even FireFox will work on the most harsh of network firewalls. In cases like this you are basically screwed.