Sounds like Webcense.
What’s Websense? We dropped Yahoo last year.
Is this a work computer or connection? Companies use Websense to filter content that their employees can access and the administrator can change the settings to limit certain sites.
I find it kind of surprising that you can get to FR but not various mail websites.
My hotmail has blocked for three days now and I’ve tried everything they tell me to do to get a code or reset my password. what’s going on?
I had e-mails filtered by Yahoo/ATT beginning several years ago.
Received a message back not to resend my e-mail that it “was being held for testing”.
I responded to that message with “Tested for what and by whom?”. No response. For a long time I could not send e-mails to anyone using a Yahoo e-mail account if I had an attachment on it. (that included my daughter).
They are very arbitrary about what they filter. My mistake was to send a copy of a screen capture of a Technorati search that displeased a POL. Nothing illegal, nothing profane, nothing porno, nothing but the search results.
It sucks.
“Websense is a San Diego-based company specializing in Web security gateway software. It enables clients (businesses and governments) to block access to ...”
That’s from Wikipedia. Curious.
I Googled Websense. They’ve had some problems with their filtering software from the gitgo. :)
“How to Bypass Websense”......
http://www.tech-faq.com/how-to-bypass-websense.html
Folks, I figured it out.
It seems, that for the first time in years, my PCs, two of them, decided to pick up a new wi-fi connection from somebody that must’ve just moved into the neighborhood, and it seems that their connection is for work purposes and has a bunch of sites being blocked. That ISP is not the same as mine, and I decided to push that connection all the way to the bottom of the preferred connections sequence, and now, my PCs are working as they should. The people using that “work” connection don’t have their connections secured and my PCs, for some reason, “decided” to connect to that unsecured wi-fi automatically.
This will happen when you visit too many porn sites.
Send me your Social Security and bank account #s and I’ll fix the problem for you.
Here to help.
No not having a problem with any of the sites mentioned?