I am not interested in giving you advice on how to view particular blocked sites from your particular circumstances. These are general tips. Try them out. If they don't work, then your IT department is smarter than average.

Let's say your company blocks access to Hotmail, but you really want to use it. You've tried it by IP address. You've tried different browsers. No luck.

Well, there is another option — surfing by proxy. Here is a list of sites that offer this service.

"One solution is to use an anonymous web proxy - basically you go to a web site and do your surfing via their server - the firewall will only see your connection to this server," is how George Breeden describes it.

Some of these require a fee (though you do get a free Anonymizer trial if you join the EFF) and, of course, your firewall might block access to the proxy site.

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