Jan 1, 2010

Block Websites Without Software

How To Block Websites Without Software, block websites ?

Steps:
1] Browse C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
2] Find the file named "HOSTS"
3] Open it in notepad
4] Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.sitenameyouwantblocked.com , and that site will no longer be accessible.
5] Done!

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 www.blockedsite.com

-->www.blockedsite.com is now unaccessible<--
For every site after that you want to add,
just add "1" to the last number in the internal ip (127.0.0.2) and
then the add like before.

IE: 127.0.0.3 www.yahoo.com
127.0.0.4 www.google.com
127.0.0.5 www.hotmail.com
etc..


Enjoy!!!!

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3 comments:

3logy said...

Thanks Vinay!

It worked! :) Now I can manually lock some sites...

Vinay said...

Thanks for your update.

Vinay said...

3logy... you can use "PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers"
http://www.peerblock.com/

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