How To Block Websites

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A Lot of People Want to Know How to Block Websites This May Be Important Because you Mite Want to Take control over your network especially if your at work and you dont want other people to fool around

On A lot of Places They have a Block System Set up so that if you Go to a Website they will be Greated With a Big Old Stop Sign

Please Note Even With The Blocks It is Possible For them to unblock it using Proxys and the https method which is very Hard To Block

one Way to Do it this Would be the Easiest Way Would be to Go into your Internet Browser and Block It From there

For Internet Explorer

1. Load your Internet explorer
2. Click Tools
3. Click Internet Options
4. Click the Privacy tab
5. Under the Privacy window, Click Sites
6. Type in the site address that you want to Block and Click OK. Remember this technique only blocks on one site at a time. Parental control software will allow you to block multiple sites and categories.

Firefox

1. In Firefox, click Tools
2. Click Add-ons
3. Click Get Add-ons
4. Choose Browse All Add-ons.
5. Type blocksite in the search bar.After installing the add-on you will be able to block sites with just a few clicks.

Google Chrome

1. Open your Chrome Web Browser
2. Click the wrench symbol in he upper right corner.
3. Choose Tools
4. Click Under the Hood tab.
5. Choose Change Proxy Settings.
6. Click Security, click Restricted Sites
7. Double click Sites and add the site you want block

How to Block A Website in All Web Browsers

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.

In Windows XP

1. Click Start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt.
2. Click Command Prompt This will open a DOS command window.
3. Type: notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts
4. Locate the line 127.0.0.1 localhost
5. To block the website google.com for example, just add this text under 127.0.0.1 localhost:


127.0.0.1 google.com
127.0.0.1 www.google.com

You can add as many sites any site, However you will need to prefix it with "127.0.0.1".

6. Save the file
Google will now be blocked in all web browser. This is an advanced but easy method on how to blow a website.

That is One Way To Do It

Another Way to Do it is you Could install a Filter Onto your Router And From your Router you can Block it Please Note the Steps For this is Different on Every Router and Network

in Addition Some ISPS provide there own blocking system ask them if they have one

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