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IT Question - IJP? Forcing Some Programs to use Wireless
« on: September 24, 2012, 08:03:24 am »
Following on from this thread:

http://www.mkb.cc/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=2&topic=11547&page=2

Where I had posted:

Quoting: Cunning Plan
Quoting: art b
as thats my topic on vzi....

I decided to join there today as VZi with its malware warnings have now been blacklisted on the webfilters at work, so I can't browse it anymore.


So, in short, VZi is not a bad site but, unknown to the new owners, had a malicious ad running. They took a while to sort it out which gave the search engines and webfitlers enough time to update their database and blacklist VZi as a malicious site.

So, when I am at work, the firewall filter blocks VZi.

I have two network connections available, wired and wireless.

The wireless connection is fairly open and doesn't have the firewall filter on it. This means I can access VZi as usual. However, as it goes straight out to the internet, it is not connected to work's servers, which means I cannot access emails and files etc.

The wired connection has the firewall on it, so I can access emails and files on the server, but I cannot access VZi.

Without having to constantly switch from wired to wireless depending on what I am doing and baring in-mind, proxies are not really an option (most are blocked anyway), is there a way of forcing Chrome to use the open wireless connection and let the rest of the programs use the secure wired connection?



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IT Question - IJP? Forcing Some Programs to use Wireless
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2012, 11:05:13 am »
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is there a way of forcing Chrome to use the open wireless connection and let the rest of the programs use the secure wired connection?





Can't think of one.

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IT Question - IJP? Forcing Some Programs to use Wireless
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2012, 01:44:40 pm »
This forum needs, ''YOU'' posting,Not just reading ! :moon:

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« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2012, 02:05:43 pm »
Just posted back!

Thank you for asking, I followed your link being .co.uk and it worked

http://www.volkszone.co.uk/VZi/index.php

The /index.php seems to make the difference as .co.uk on it's own will defailt back to .com.

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« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2012, 02:14:12 pm »
well there ya go.... im fantastic....
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« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2012, 09:11:01 pm »
i'm sure you can do what you want by traffic blocking etc, but if you got a much easier solution then job done :)