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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

BLOCK UNWANTED WEBSITES IN YOUR COMPUTER


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.

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.

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.

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