Banning cetain sites

[Monsieur]

After a couple of 'issues' involving my daughters and friends I want to completely ban sites such as MSN, messenger and hotmail.
How do I do this so that any other site can be accessed but not those above?

 

[Steve]

After a couple of 'issues' involving my daughters and friends I want to completely ban sites such as MSN, messenger and hotmail.
How do I do this so that any other site can be accessed but not those above?

You should be able to do this on your router if you're running a home network, with the added bonus that you can password-protect your changes.

 

[ovenpaa]

Through your router if it supports such an action, or through a desktop firewall or parental control application, or if you are up for some research you can filter by IP - not always a good choice

 

[Redboots]

After a couple of 'issues' involving my daughters and friends I want to completely ban sites such as MSN, messenger and hotmail.
How do I do this so that any other site can be accessed but not those above?

You can add any such hosts/IP address to your HOSTS file.
Depending upon your release of windows that is, because micksoft chose to remove it as of XP-SP2. MS thinks its a security risk... like trhe rest of windows aint!?
There is a fix to reinstate it

If a site is in your Hosts file, and has its address set to 127.0.0.1 (localhost), that site will not be able to be loaded from the web as 127.0.0.1 is itself.
Your hosts file probably looks like this, if you have one

# 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

To block any and as many hosts as you want, add a line like so:

127.0.0.1 www.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 youclick2earn.com
127.0.0.1 www.persiankitty.com

and so on.

John

 

[Dickieboy]

Open internet options, click on the content tab, then click on 'Enable' enter the websites you don't want to allow and then click on 'Never'

 

[Steve]

Open internet options, click on the content tab, then click on 'Enable' enter the websites you don't want to allow and then click on 'Never'

...and 10 minutes later your son/daughter does exactly the same and enables them again.

 

[Dickieboy]

...and 10 minutes later your son/daughter does exactly the same and enables them again.

Got 2 daughters Steve who wouldn't have a clue Steve.

 

[Dickieboy]

I've paid for and installed this program on the kids laptops, and told both my girls that the program is there even though they can't see it. It logs all their messenger activity recording their online chat and the sites they visit, It alerts me to any problems re chat room groomers (none so far thank god) and I have programmed my own key words into it so that if those words crop up a message is flagged up for me.


http://www.ilp4parents.com/

Worth it for the peace of mind.

 

[Monsieur]

Thanks for all the advice

I'll give it a go over the next few days - problem is my kids are too PC savvy and can generally find a way round most things!

 

[IainMac]

Try K9 web filter add-on, I think you can create custom web blocking lists or use thier default lists (in various stages of paranoia)
google bash it and the download website should come up.
PS its a free download and from a large webfilter vendor, you can lock it with an adminstrator password so only you can adjust it (though they may be able to uninstall it)

 

[unhinged]

I'll give it a go over the next few days - problem is my kids are too PC savvy and can generally find a way round most things!

Unfortunately then the only solution is to ban them from the computer. If you bar them from one location they can always proxy though another. If you bar them by traffic content they can always encapsulate the traffic using another protocol. If you can keep up then you can keep on top but if they're proper savvy you'll always be one step behind.

 

[LiquidLAN]

You can add any such hosts/IP address to your HOSTS file.
Depending upon your release of windows that is, because micksoft chose to remove it as of XP-SP2. MS thinks its a security risk... like trhe rest of windows aint!?
There is a fix to reinstate it

If a site is in your Hosts file, and has its address set to 127.0.0.1 (localhost), that site will not be able to be loaded from the web as 127.0.0.1 is itself.
Your hosts file probably looks like this, if you have one

# 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

To block any and as many hosts as you want, add a line like so:

127.0.0.1 www.microsoft.com
127.0.0.1 youclick2earn.com
127.0.0.1 www.persiankitty.com

and so on.

John

Lots of good advice here Traveller setting up small block lists should be easy enough, but they will always find away around them... the trouble with creating your own block lists is that its never ending, Websense do a corporate option, it allows you to block catagories, maybe there is a home version??

but what I'd really like to know is, is persiankitty any good, cos I know spank.com isnt what you'd expect