Smartfilter is most likely not bypassable. It seems that it resides on the proxy server end rather then the client side. Heres a message that it chokes out whenever i visit a site that it doesnt like:
Quote:
ERROR
Access Denied by SmartFilter
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The following error was encountered:
Access Denied by SmartFilter: Forbidden, this page (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/) is categorized as: Games.
Request: GET / HTTP/1.0 Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */* Accept-Language: en-us User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Host: www.worldofwarcraft.com Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact the cache administrator if you feel this is incorrect.
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Generated Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:06:55 GMT by webproxy.psdschools.org (squid/2.5.STABLE9)
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The message at the bottom (Starting with "generated fri..") leads me to believe that the browser is being forced through the proxy server (for my district its webproxy.psdschools.org) and the content is filtered there before it even gets to my computer. Also, IE settings are locked so I cant mess with the proxy settings (I dont even have a file menu!).
The IT people here arent noobs unfortunately