block vicious sites, how?

paulladro

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Dec 28, 2004
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I often unconsciously entered some dangerous sites, so how can I block those vicious sites?
Thanks a lot!
 

amdskip

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You can block them using internet explorer.

Internet options, privacy, add the site there.
 

MW2005

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Dec 29, 2004
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You can use Armor2net Personal Firewall. It has a Banned Sites List and you can add the URLs of those dangerous sites into that List. Those disgusting sites will be blocked. Download it from http://www.armor2net.com

 

SaintTigurius

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get a router, all the dlink routers and linksys,Di-604 has inside them url domain blocking and name blocking very good stuff.
 

ktwebb

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Much more laborious method but you can point offending sites to the loopback address in your hosts file. Much to labor intensive to be an effective way manually but that is the method used with some software. They just create and/or edit your local hosts file.
 

classy

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Originally posted by: SaintTigurius
get a router, all the dlink routers and linksys,Di-604 has inside them url domain blocking and name blocking very good stuff.

 

Slowlearner

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You can download a pretty comprehensive hosts file from mvps.org, install firewall and configure it properly, a router will be of limited use - its more useful for protecting inbound hacks. You need to run adaware frequently, keep your windows update uptodate, use Firefox as your web browser, disable active scripting in IE, as well as the other suggestions made above. Plus shut your computer when you are not using it.
 

bersl2

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Originally posted by: ktwebb
Much more laborious method but you can point offending sites to the loopback address in your hosts file. Much to labor intensive to be an effective way manually but that is the method used with some software. They just create and/or edit your local hosts file.

You should use 0.0.0.0 instead of the loopback address, since the loopback address can be valid, but 0.0.0.0 never will.