Corporate firewall killed all IM's, need new way to communicate

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Monday morning I showed up to my workstation and Symantec Network Login popped up when I went to open IE, I knew right away I was going to have trouble finding an outgoing port for AIM, as it turns out...there are none

AIM was the only program was previously worked so I know that none of the others (Yahoo, MSN, Trillian) will function in it's place, I need to find a program or website that allows real time chat (most likely a website with P2P or something) I would like to be able to mail friends a link to a "private room" (ya ya whatever) for real time chat that the firewall can't shut down.

Any ideas?

 

[spherrod]

http://www.msn2go.com/

http://www.e-messenger.net/

http://webmessenger.msn.com/

Any of these help?

 

[Steve]

Private Yahoo Groups have realtime chat windows.

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

THANKS!, that gave me the idea to look for an AIM web based messenger...and there is one.

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Sh*t, I spoke too soon, the connection was getting killed every 2 mins, I will try a few until I can get something to work.

 

[KLin]

Try posting in the networking forum. I'm sure they'll help you find a way to bypass the network to be able to talk to your friends.

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Originally posted by: KLin
Try posting in the networking forum. I'm sure they'll help you find a way to bypass the network to be able to talk to your friends.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot if those MSN ones won't work.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius

Originally posted by: KLin
Try posting in the networking forum. I'm sure they'll help you find a way to bypass the network to be able to talk to your friends.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot if those MSN ones won't work.

Actually, bypassing corporate networking policies is generally frowned upon here. You might want to avoid asking that question.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius

Originally posted by: KLin
Try posting in the networking forum. I'm sure they'll help you find a way to bypass the network to be able to talk to your friends.

Thanks, I'll give that a shot if those MSN ones won't work.

Actually, bypassing corporate networking policies is generally frowned upon here. You might want to avoid asking that question.

I think he was being sarcastic

 

[Fritoz]

Certainly hope he was, we had a guy get fired here last year for this type of thing.
The internet isn't that important, people!

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
Sh*t, I spoke too soon, the connection was getting killed every 2 mins, I will try a few until I can get something to work.

GIve your IT guys SOME credit! Don't you think we would have thought of this web client shenanigan? Of course!!!

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
Sh*t, I spoke too soon, the connection was getting killed every 2 mins, I will try a few until I can get something to work.

GIve your IT guys SOME credit! Don't you think we would have thought of this web client shenanigan? Of course!!!

Well, so far i have always been one step ahead of them so it might take me a couple days but I will be back in the saddle soon. They can't block a Java applet (not without causing a ton of unhappy other people)

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: ChurchOfSubgenius
Sh*t, I spoke too soon, the connection was getting killed every 2 mins, I will try a few until I can get something to work.

GIve your IT guys SOME credit! Don't you think we would have thought of this web client shenanigan? Of course!!!

Well, so far i have always been one step ahead of them so it might take me a couple days but I will be back in the saddle soon. They can't block a Java applet (not without causing a ton of unhappy other people)

Heh heh heh. :evil.