is there a way to avoid proxy on a mac?

[danmcl721]

is there a way to avoid proxy on a mac ill take anything, programs, techniques, hacks my school decided we are all bad students and you cant even use google

[Brandon]

That'd be the best way to prove that they are right.

Anyway, to answer your question, MACs aren't any different - subject to the same limitations as PCs.

If they really shut down all outside access, the methods available to them are a lot harder to get around than if they just blocked a few sites.

[H]

Proxies are antiquated and easily blocked on the fly by filters and don't work anymore.

They are also pretty much completely insecure. Take a look a another post on Answers and the answers regarding the would be proxy operator.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...854AAto5XA

This from someone who doesn't have a clue what they are doing. Imagine what a real hacker does with these proxies.

[shawn]

Web filters like Websense can scan for and detect a proxy as soon as you try to connect to it. The technology is quite simple and all the web filtering systems now use it. It doesn’t matter what the name of the proxy is, how fresh it is or anything else. The proxy will be detected and blocked. Sometimes on the fly and others a little while later by the administrator.

Say you get a proxy to work for a bit. What do you get for all the work involved in finding one that does? Most of these free proxies are are hacker pots designed to either steal your information or plant bots on your computer. The hacker then has control of your machine and can steal credit cards, attack web sites and send out tons of spam all from your IP address. The recent Facebook and Twitter DDOS attacks that took down their entire networks is a classic example of what people using proxies and getting infected enables.

The few that are not hacker related are loaded with advertisements, as that’s how the owner is making money. The owner of the proxy is probably also watching everything you do so they can take whatever information they can, email addresses and such and sell them for a profit.

In either case the owner has no incentive to provide fast response, high bandwidth or compatibility with advanced web site features. You are being used by the proxy owner and are delivering very little back to you.

Read more about anonymous and free proxy servers below.

http://www.personalvpn.org/danger_proxy_servers.htm