With more and more institutions going online, they are also realizing that their employees or students are spending more time online for their personal usage, they have been spending on firewalls to restrict this usage. This series is about the tools and techniques that still work on these firewalls to help you to circumvent across them to your destination websites.

Given below is a list of best known tools available free online to bypass any firewall.

• UltraSurf (Download)

A free  circumvent software available online, perhaps powerful enough to bypass any industry level firewall at its default configuration.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.

• Tor(Download)

Tor is a system intended to enable online anonymity, composed of client software and a network of servers which can hide information about users’ locations. Tor provides perfect anonymity it makes it more difficult to trace internet traffic to the user, including visits to Web sites, online posts, instant messages, and other communication forms.

• HotSpot Shield(Download)

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.

• Hopster (Download)

Hide your real IP address and protect yourself from the firewalls, Hopster allows you to  chat with your friends using your favourite applications: MSN, AOL, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, Miranda, Trillian, mIRC.

• GPass (Download)

GPass or Global Pass allows support for streaming audio/video, email, instant messaging, download managers, as well as web surfing.GPass helps you bypass censorship and blocked web sites by tunneling network traffic through encrypted proxy servers.It’s also impressively fast for a proxy—it appears to choose the proxy server with the quickest response rate when it starts up.

• Freegate(Download)

Freegate is software that enables internet users from mainland China, Syria, Iran, Vietnam and United Arab Emirates, among others, to view websites blocked by their governments. It uses various Open Source  Proxies available online.Freegate is available to users outside China as shareware. Without license, user may be able to use it for a few minutes. Licensed user will be able to use it up to the allowed amount of data transfer that comes with that license.

• JAP(Download)

JAP uses a single static address which is shared by many JAP users. That way neither the visited website, nor an eavesdropper can determine which user visited which website.