You can use putty and firefox to do sock proxy on windows. When configuring a connection in Putty add a port for dynamic forwarding (under connection -> ssh ->

You can use putty and firefox to do sock proxy on windows. When configuring a connection in Putty add a port for dynamic forwarding (under connection -> ssh -> tunnels, put something like 4999 in the source port, select the Dynamic radio button and click add next to the source port) Then in firefox you can setup a socket proxy (in options, under advanced settings -> connection settings select manual proxy then add 127.0.0.1 and port 4999.) This should be enough to get around it. I use this to secure my connection while on other peoples laptop (work etc..)