Re: disallow surfing to certain sites?
From: Baruch (baruch01_at_N0sbcglobal.net$PAM)
Date: 05/21/04
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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 02:39:27 GMT
On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:58:37 -0400, "Lisa Simpson" <noone@nowhere.com>
wrote:
|>How to disallow surfing to certain sites using IE6?
|>
I suggest you edit your hosts file. This is a file that will redirect
your computer to an IP address you specify, if the site name appears
in the file.
The hosts file may be located in different folders, depending on your
version of Windows. You can do a search for it to find it. The hosts
file has no extension - its name is simply, "hosts".
Once you find hosts, open it with Notepad. You should find, at least,
the following entry:
127.0.0.0 localhost
The numbers are the IP address (in this case, it refers to your own
computer). "Localhost" is the name of the "site", again, your own
computer.
So, let's say you want to disallow surfing to nastysite.com. You
could add the following line:
127.0.0.0 nastysite.com
And so on, for each site you don't want to visit. When you (or
someone using your computer) tried to access nastysite.com, they'd be
redirected back to your own computer, which would generally give you
an error message. If you wanted to do something like redirect the
browser to another Website, you could put that Website's IP number
instead of 127.0.0.0.
As I understand it, if you can get to nastysite.com either by using
nastysite.com or www.nastysite.com, you will need to enter both
possibilities.
Hope this helps.
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