banning certain sites

[daxtojeiro]

Hi all,
is it possible to ban certain sites from being accessed in Windows XP pro? getting sick of the kids accessing a couple of sites and want them banned from internet explorer.
If so, how do you do it?
thanks all,
Phil

[docevi1]

the easiest way:

Goto C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32DRIVERSETC and open "hosts" with notepad and enter the line:

127.0.0.0 www.xxxxxxx.xxx (i.e. the url you wish to ban).

It can be got round...

edit : don't put http://..... thats Ted putting extra bits in, just use w w w.xxxxx....

>> Edited by docevi1 on Tuesday 25th May 20:18

[timsta]

There are a couple of ways. If you have broadband and yopur own firewall then you can look at doing it on the firewall.

There are some packages out there, NetNanny and the like, but I think you have to pay for them.

The easiest free way to do it will ony work if they don't know too much about computers: go to c:windowssystem32driversetc you will see a file called "hosts" Open it with notepad. There should be an entry called "localhost" with an address of "127.0.0.1" basically this says to the computer "if you are looking for a server/computer called localhost then look at yourself"

So all you need to do is add the sites you want to block.

So to block google just add a new line with the following: "127.0.0.1 www.google.co.uk"

The downside is that you need to add each server and they can still get to the site if they know the IP address.

Tim

Doh, too slow!

>> Edited by timsta on Tuesday 25th May 20:21

[daxtojeiro]

Thanks very much.
Will try it, neither of them know anything about computers so should be fine,
Phil

[daxtojeiro]

It works! Excellent, now they wont be getting on the Everton site and I can brain wash them into supporting Liverpool!!
Phil

[pdV6]

daxtojeiro said:

It works! Excellent, now they wont be getting on the Everton site and I can brain wash them into supporting Liverpool!! Phil

In which case, using the technique described above, you could re-direct requests for the Everton site to Liverpool's one!

[anonymous-user]

pdV6 said:

daxtojeiro said: It works! Excellent, now they wont be getting on the Everton site and I can brain wash them into supporting Liverpool!! Phil In which case, using the technique described above, you could re-direct requests for the Everton site to Liverpool's one!

Surely that could be classed as child cruelty?

[Jay-Aim]

LexSport said:

pdV6 said: daxtojeiro said: It works! Excellent, now they wont be getting on the Everton site and I can brain wash them into supporting Liverpool!! Phil In which case, using the technique described above, you could re-direct requests for the Everton site to Liverpool's one! Surely that could be classed as child cruelty?

no education

[rsvmilly]

This site has a HOSTS file ready-made with lots of common malware and spyware sites already entered;

www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

[Munter]

I'm certain that in IE you can block all sites setting a password. And then they will have to ask you to put sites on the "OK" list using the password. That way they can only get to sites approved by you. And after a few days you'll have enabled all their fav sites.....