Putty/SSH is probably your best bet.
You can set it up as a proxy in IE/etc (SOCKS 5 127.0.0.1:8080)
and your stuff just leaves over one port.
Putty is a ~300kb download will run direct from a flash disk without 
installation and theres a bunch of how to's for doing exactly that

If your feeling keen tell ssh to listen on port 53(DNS) at your home 
address (a port forward in your firewall will do) and you can generally 
get free net access from all those wireless hotspots around the place.

Easiest and most secure way to get ssh running for this on a windows 
machine is probably a virtual machine.
Install vmware
grab the "ubuntu minimal" iso
make a new VM with that iso as the cd drive (bridged networking).
boot it and follow the prompts
once you get in
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

then

ifconfig

This will give you the MAC address and ipaddress that its taken
Go into your router and use those to give it a static lease, while your 
there forward ports 80,22,443 and 53 to the ip address of your new 
server (destination port 22)

Putty can run over a http proxy (the proxy at your work) as well so if 
they block all outbound access except for http you can still tunnel out.


Mike Hord wrote:
> I have a problem.  My company has recently (okay, 4-5 months ago)
> instated a filter on our web traffic.  Everything in or out gets checked
> for "naughtiness" and blocked accordingly.
>
> Apart from the general PITA which is someone else's opinion of the
> content of a website (I've had a site containing information about
> improving the sustainability of your company blocked as "Occult"
> and a site selling optical equipment blocked as "Pornography", while
> the unquestionably vulgar website "Tshirthell.com" went through with
> no problems), the access times on websites has gone WAY up.
>
> Some days, access to even common and usually fast websites
> (Google, Wikipedia, Digikey) slows to a crawl- 30s to 2min for the
> page to be accessed.  It isn't a load time issue- the request is hung
> in the porno-filter server and, once it goes out, the page load very
> quickly.  Fairly often, the load will fail entirely and a 503 error will
> result- last Thursday, fully 60% of my page requests resulted in 503
> errors.
>
> I have discussed this with my boss, and I know many, many of my
> coworkers have discussed it as well.  It seems that HR would rather
> have us not working than risk that one of us look at adult content
> on work time.
>
> So, background given, I ask the big question:  how do I get around
> this?
>
> I have two ideas: first, get a cellular plan that includes data access
> and hook my phone to the PC.  Use that for websurfing.  I don't
> like this idea because it costs ME money and the web access will
> be slower all the time, if more reliable all the time.
>
> Second idea: set up a VPN to my home network.  I figure that will
> be faster in the end than cellular, if harder to set up.  The one thing
> I DON'T know is whether it will bypass the filtering software.  I'd
> think so, because the filter probably just checks http traffic on port
> 80, but I'm not sure.
>
> Opinions?  Other ideas?  Empathy/sympathy for my situation?
>
> Mike H.
>   

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