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10+ Free Tools to Bypass Firewalls and Access Blocked Websites

Posted by Saad Hamid on March 14, 2008

Internet censorship is becoming a big disaster day by day. I never imagined that my own country would adopt this practice one day but when recently Pakistan blocked YouTube I realized that I cannot even trust my own ISP and decided to take the matters in my own hands (well kind of)

Over the year I have shared a number of tips and tricks related to bypassing Internet firewalls and accessing blocked websites but with time these tricks have become useless and obsolete so today I am sharing with you 10 Free Tools to bypass firewalls and access blocked websites that will make sure that you get to visit those websites blocked by your country ISPs or network firewalls.

1. UltraSurf (Link)

UltraSurf is the flagship software product from UltraReach for Internet anti-censorship. It enables users inside countries with heavy Internet censorship to visit any public web sites in the world safely and freely. It enables users to browse any website freely just the same as using the regular browser while it automatically searches the highest speed proxy servers in the background.

2. GPass (Link)

Hide your IP address during web surfing. Support streaming audio/video, email, instant messaging, download managers, etc. Break through Internet blocking. Easy-to-use graphical user interface.

3. FreeGate (Link)

FreeGate is an anti-censorship client software for a secure and faster internet. Users access web sites overseas as fast as their local ones. It requires no installation or change in system setting. FreeGate works together with DynaWeb, a P2P-like proxy network system.

4. Garden GTunnel (Link)

GTunnel is a Windows application that works as a local HTTP or SOCKS proxy server. After setting proxy to GTunnel in web browser or other Internet applications, the traffic will go through GTunnel and our server farm before it reaches its original destination.

5. JAP (Link)

JAP makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably. Instead of connecting directly to a webserver, users take a detour, connecting with encryption through several intermediaries, so-called Mixes. JAP uses a predetermined sequence for the mixes. Such a sequence of linked mixes is called a Mix Cascade. Users can choose between different mix cascades.

6. Your Freedom (Link)

Your Freedom services makes accessible what is unaccessible to you, and it hides your network address from those who don't need to know. It turns your own PC into an uncensored, anonymous web proxy and an uncensored, anonymous SOCKS proxy that your applications can use, and it can even get you connected to the Internet just as if you were using an unrestricted DSL or cable connection.

7. Hopster (Link)

Hopster is all about open, safe and uncensored internet access. At home, schools, universities and offices worldwide, even in countries where Freedom of Speech is a political challenge. Hide your real IP address and protect yourself from nosy people and wannabe-hackers.

8. Freenet (Link)

Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.

9. Tor (Link)

Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.

10. HotSpot Shield (Link)

HotSpot Shield creates a secure virtual private network (VPN) over your connection allowing you to bypass any ISP firewalls and lets you visit even those websites which are blocked by your ISP. It can also be used to visit those websites which are specifically meant for US users e.g. Pandora, Hulu etc.

These tools can also be used by students and workers in their school/colleges and offices respectively to bypass network firewalls.

Posted in: Software/OS

Syahid A.

Essential list man. 10 tools to prevent snooping will absolutely be useful to anyone who thinks about privacy.

Rakshit

I tried Jap, Freedom and hopster and they all are excellent bypassing tools.

Thanks for this great list.

Stumbled

James Edwards

Check out http://www.proxylord.com it is very fast and secure...Works on Youtube also!

Sogy

Hey anyone knows how to use freegate or anything else to access gmail imap using thunderbird when everything other that port 80 and https is blocked

Lam Chun Chi

My ISP, The (FK) Indonesia Telkom Speed block the rapidshare.com & YouTube, I change the free public proxy server and solve only the YouTube problem, and our customer can access to YouTube now, but the rapidshare.com still can not until found you help on this blog, the UltraSurf help us a lot :) thank you so much indeed. Thank you brother.

Fachia

Just adding a link, Tembus is a free anonymous surf service but it is segmented for Indonesian People. It is located at IIX server so well fast accessed from Indonesia. But I'm still wondering is it possible to make access time faster by using such kind of service.

rohit kumar

Thanks a lot for sharing these...I tried Ultrasuft...this is excellent.

Teeth Maestro

I would recommend PsiPhon which is a better tool then the over congested TOR network

Psiphon

Oluwaseun

Please, can I install some of these packages on my PC without internet connection and still connect to internet, if yes, someone help me with how to do it

mohammed ali

i lik 2 try Jap, Freedom and hopster,
pls help me

thankz for this help

david

your freedom isn't going on glo line via gprs.any one know au to bail me out.but infact,when working it was great

hank freid

I also recommend PsiPhon. This is better tool.

shangotek

Hi Guy ....Thank for share.....very nice job....take care u..

Olapet

I tried ultrasurf too and it was wonderful, thank you and keep the good work up. Love u brother

Ibrahim Hudhaif

Hi

I really enjoyed these tools, there are very neat and useful.

Keep up the good work!

mororo

i've using ultrareach for a few month... then suddenly the program & file are deleted by my AV... im using bitdefender plus 10... is there any way i can use this program without dissabling my AV.

Eric

The programs are great but they all leave a registry entry. Which lets say you are an Ethical Hacker and/or you just want to be as safe as you can. Each one of these programs are great since you can input a proxy before connecting, which I have like 5 encrypted proxy servers of my own, but anyway each program leaves a a bunch of registry keys which can be traced back to you.

Kalyan

Hi guys

I tried Ultrasurf and Freegate both r Excellent
but Ultrasurf servers are blocked in ur organization so i'm now usin freegate which uses the powerful concept of DynaWeb and searches u 4 Open proxies which anyone can xploit and surf d web anonymously but i'm facin a problem using zis...
Gmail the most required is not accesible usin freegate as it

uses https port:443 to forward the data so port error 443 is coming so how can i zolve zis problem?any help will b appreciated !!!!!!

10HnX...

Timi

hi, i had of a software that connected VPN through GPRS and connectes to countries like germany, Us. pls i will any one who knows about it to tell me the name and how to get it

eminda

how to bypass login hotspot?

is there any simple tool formatted in windows extention ( .exe) ?

i need internet in high time, around me there are so many hotspot using login page. but i think not wrong i try to sometime using one of them..

please help.

Raymond

I tried all the mentioned ways to breakout from China. Tks to Hamid, at last I found a way that worked.

1) Proxy servers and online web proxys - most of them didn't work, remaining few couldn't handle my preferred newspaper sites properly, too slow and partially functional.
2) Generic.dx were reported by Mcafee on Ultrasurf and few other free tools.
3) Example Google translation didn't allow translation from English to English.
4) Hex encoded URL didn't work.
5) Convert Url to IP did work.
6) Hotspot Shield was the only one fully functional with acceptable speed.

Trey

Tried them all none of them worked.

Do you know anything to bypass a program made by Eagle Software. It is a firewall that lets you use a proxy once but if you try to use it again it will recognize it and block it. I think it blocks things by looking at a list of words, phrases, etc that is made by the admin.