Hi Peasant,

Thanks for clarifying.

Yes, you might not have meant for the OP to break IT security policy; but that is not what you typed in your reply, so hence my post. I must insure people here at not advising users to break their organizations IT security policy, either accidentally, indirectly, or on purpose.

As the forum admin, your reply read to me like you were advising the original poster to use a proxy briefly to download software from the Internet. You did not mention anything about coordinating or asking permission from his IT security manager or his supervisor at his bank.

We are not here to advise people who work at banks and other organizations (with high risk management profiles and tight access controls in place) how to bypass their internal IT security.

mohtashims can easily discuss his options with his management and IT security team. I am sure they have their own policies on how to deal with this; and they can help him, as they should.

I'm closing this thread before others start accidentally or purposely advising mohtashims how to breach his bank's IT security access controls and policies to download software from the Internet at his work.

It is my job here to make these calls since I'm the forum admin and have the overall responsibility to insure we are not assisting people to violate company policies.

The correct answer to mohtashims is "go talk to your boss and IT security team".

Thanks for understanding.