How to restrict user from opening Certain Websites.

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toofan

Technomancer
Freinds Can anyone tell me how to restrict any one from Oppening certain websites from my pc.

Can we block certain websites to be opened.

Thanks.
 

ravi_9793

TechTin.com
You can use parental control software. Many internet security like kaspersky have inbuilt feature.
 

Disc_Junkie

Call me D_J!
If you have Zole Alarm 7 or greater, you'll find a Parental Control tab where you can block many categories of websites together by specifying a password.
 

Dark Core

Freak Beta 1
you can also use host file to deny access to site - It will work with any browser, If you are using Vista, you have inbuilt Parental Feature! [Comes in XP too in Home Edition]
 
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toofan

toofan

Technomancer
Use suricate extention on firefox & content advisor on IE

hmm, which browser you use? Ie has it in Internet Propertie, FF, i eave never used.
Fire Fox.

You can use parental control software. Many internet security like kaspersky have inbuilt feature.
I use Avast Home Edition.

If you have Zole Alarm 7 or greater, you'll find a Parental Control tab where you can block many categories of websites together by specifying a password.
Let me check this. How to use Zone alarm.

you can also use host file to deny access to site - It will work with any browser, If you are using Vista, you have inbuilt Parental Feature! [Comes in XP too in Home Edition]
What is this Host file. and how to use it. I use Xp.

Simply use NetDog. It's very lite. And effective.
I will try this also.

So many options. Can you suggest me the right option. I actually want to restrict Orkut and yahoo.com
 
You can try one more thing. Get a static IP address and use OpenDNS. You can now block anything you want by configuring it in an account in OpenDNS.
 

Liverpool_fan

Sami Hyypiä, LFC legend
you can also use host file to deny access to site - It will work with any browser, If you are using Vista, you have inbuilt Parental Feature! [Comes in XP too in Home Edition]

This works but is an incredibly hackish approach. Also you need seperate entries for domain.tld and www.domain.tld

+1 for OpenDNS
 

Sukhdeep Singh

Host4Cheap.org
1. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
2. Open hosts file in Notepad
3. Add at the bottom

127.0.0.1 site.com
127.0.0.1 www.site.com

So it looks like this
# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 site.com
127.0.0.1 www.site.com

Done! and site should be blocked in all browsers
 

dreams

Gracias Senor
U can also use K9 software, which is free and does the job perfect. I use this to al my employees in my office. But later moved to a hardware firewall box, thru which we hv enabled proxy.
 
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toofan

toofan

Technomancer
1. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
2. Open hosts file in Notepad
3. Add at the bottom

127.0.0.1 site.com
127.0.0.1 www.site.com

So it looks like this

Done! and site should be blocked in all browsers

Thanks friend this looks and easy approach.

though I will try to learn each trick.
 

Saharika

In the zone
Thanks friend this looks and easy approach.

though I will try to learn each trick.

this may be easy way but not efficient one....
what you are doing here is overwriting ip of the site....and redirecting user to local machine than actual ip of the site....
esp you may fall into problem if u run some servers in that computers...
and offcourse u have less control options...
 
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anarchist

Guest
^ and if the person you are restricting knows this method?
there is no password protection.
 
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toofan

toofan

Technomancer
I tired the K9 software. It works great but the problem is that the user will know that this website has been blocked intentionally. I don't want other users to know that particular website has been blocked by someone.
 
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