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My company has a group policy set up so that we cannot access AIM. The program is downloaded onto my machine, but it doesn’t connect, and when I went to check the firewall, it said that there wasn’t one set up, rather it was a group policy. Does anyone know how I could get around this? Thanks.
kathleen31 wrote:My company has a group policy set up so that we cannot access AIM. The program is downloaded onto my machine, but it doesn’t connect, and when I went to check the firewall, it said that there wasn’t one set up, rather it was a group policy. Does anyone know how I could get around this? Thanks.Does AIM express work? Or any other web-based AIM sites?
Nope, Express does not work. We can get to the site, but once you actually try to use the program, it blocks the user. I feel like there is someway around it though, because I’ve heard of some people in the company that are able to use it.
There are other sites. Not sure if they would be able to work, but its a try:
http://www.meebo.com
http://www.e-messenger.net/
http://www.ai-buddy.comHelp. Those sites worked for a week or so but my company must have caught on and they are all being blocked now. Any other suggestions? Thanks for your help!!
Well, kathleen… don’t shoot the messenger, but… if your company has taken the effort to block access to AIM, I would think they have a good reason for doing so. I would also tend to think that after all their efforts to block said programs, if you were caught still attempting to go around them and use AIM, you could face problems.
Do you so desperately need to get on AIM that you’re willing to go against your employers’ wishes?
Haha, thanks for your morality there tiger, but I’m just a nervous mom. I have a child away at college, first year and apparently that’s the only way I can seem to get ahold of him. Thanks again for your concern though.
kathleen31;207161 wrote:Haha, thanks for your morality there tiger, but I’m just a nervous mom. I have a child away at college, first year and apparently that’s the only way I can seem to get ahold of him. Thanks again for your concern though.I know of a AIM program (3rd party) that you can put on your flash drive and load it up onto your computer without any installation. I cant remember that name of it. Maybe someone can help me out?
Another way would be to use one of those proxy sites. You go onto a proxy site and use their “web browser” on their site and you could possibly access AIM through them. lol. We actually used to use this method to access AIM in school, until they started to block the proxy sites. 😡 Here is a site http://proxy.org/cgi_proxies.shtml click on the left side to one of the working proxies and try to log onto AIM.com or one of those alternative sites I gave you.
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