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Blocking websites

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:47 pm
by The Weegie
Hi there.

How do I stop people from using certain websites. Like put a block on it.

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:53 pm
by dave.m
Can you be a bit more explicit?

Is it computer savvy children that you want to block? (makes it difficult because they can Google solutions)

Also do you want a full time block (24/7) or a block after a certain time in the evening?

dave

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:56 pm
by The Weegie
Its a couple of websites that I want to block on a temporary basis.

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:02 pm
by dave.m
If it's only temp, then you could try blocking by using your Hosts files:

http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers ... uter/1602/

Scroll down to the instructions.

Where it says 127.0.0.1
put the url of the site (you only need the www.***.com part of the address) after the 127.0.0.1

You can also use another line and put the name of the site (eg, facebook) after the numbers.


Is it computer savvy children that you want to block? (makes it difficult because they can Google solutions)

dave