I dont think my school uses bess, theres a blocker called "smartfilter" thats installed on the proxy server...everytime i try to go to a banned site it pops up a page similiar to this:
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)
Also IE has its settings locked (so much that I dont even have a file menu). The admins here are not noobs (unlike the one at my junior high).