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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

How To Block a Site?

There are many reason why you need to know how to block a website. Some of the most common reasons are you have been targeted by spammers who use adware and popups to attack your PC. Other reasons may be to prevent your children from having access to certain site content such as porn and gambling.

Depending on the level of security you wish, learning how to block a website may require a adjustments of your web browser, the use of internet filtering software or editing of your host file. At any rate you can try all methods to see which works best for you.

This action will require you to edit your Host file. Your host file is a computer file used to store information on where to find a node on a computer network. For more a more detailed description. Check out this link Host File Description Link

follow this steps

  1.  Click Start->run 
  2. copy paste this:'C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc'(whithout quotes)

 
3. then window is open   
4. open the host file with notepad  
5. then find this line "127.0.0.1 Local host"  
6. then add the site which u want to block  
7. be carefull for adding one site in one line

eg:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 www.googleg.com
127.0.0.3 www.yahooc.com
127.0.0.4 www.vinesh.com

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