Companies usually have firewalls in place, which ensure that the internal network is protected. To access the outside world, all traffic must be routed through a proxy. When you are using the standard operating system (typically Windows), you are automatically authenticated with this proxy. However, when you are using a non-standard operating system (e.g. through a virtual machine running Linux), you are not automatically authenticated with the company’s proxy. The sad result: you won’t be able to access the internet out of the …