27 July, 2011

How to Unblock Facebok and other Blocked Websites

This tutorial is all about on how to access blocked websites.  Nowadays, Facebook and other social networking sites are mostly blocked in some offices and schools. You can easily access this sites with ease by using OpenVPN connection. This is very easy to use and you don't need to pay something just to use this high secure Free VPN service to unblock all the restricted sites in your location. BUT REMEMBER this might be the best way to unblock some restricted websites but I hope you will use this with consent from your IT department or supervisors, this could end up you in hot water and out of your job.

How to Access Blocked Websites
1. First you need to download the vpn installer.
  • For Windows, download OpenVPN client Software from official link: Free OpenVPN Services
  • Or use OpenVPN Portable Edition for Windows from ovpnp project.
  • For Windows XP or Vista, install it as regular windows application.
  • For Windows 7, set to Vista compatible mode before installing as explained here.
  • For Apple Mac OSX, download the OpenVPN client from here.
  • For Linux Ubuntu or Debian, download X86 or X86 clients from here.
2. Once OpenVPN client is installed, download the Free OpenVPN configuration file. It includes certificate, key and ovpn setting files.
3. Unzip the files into OpenVPN configuration folder (in Windows it could be C: drive, under "Program Files", the "OpenVPN" sub-folder, then select the "Config" folder).
4. Run the application and right click the OpenVPN icon in your task bar and click "Connect" to start the VPN connection.

Each time after OpenVPN VPN connection is established, you need to access their web site http://www.freeopenvpn.com for one time to activate the Free SSL VPN session.

UPDATE: This method is not working anymore. http://www.freeopenvpn.com has been shutdown. Here is a new way on How to Access Blocked Websites.

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