How do i block a website?

[aphex]

?

 

[BatmanNate]

add www.saidwebsite.com 127.0.0.1 to your hosts file.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

from your local machine?

simplest way is this:

find a file called 'hosts' its in the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ folder

add a line at the end like this:

127.0.0.1 www.websiteyouwanttoblock.com


save it and now you cant ge to that site.

Matt

 

[aphex]

If all works, i wont be posting here for a few days... So no news, is good news...

Thanks for the help guys 🙂

 

[Zim Hosein]

In IE: TOOLS - INTERNET OPTIONS - SECURITY - RESTRICTED SITES - Click the SITES button - type in the web address - click ADD - hit OKAY 🙂

 

[JonnyBlaze]

trying to keep yourself away huh?? 🙂

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
In IE: TOOLS - INTERNET OPTIONS - SECURITY - RESTRICTED SITES - Click the SITES button - type in the web address - click ADD - hit OKAY 🙂

Neither of them worked. 🙁

 

[JonnyBlaze]

what exactly are you trying to block.

forums.siteyouwanttoblock.com & www.siteyouwanttoblock.com is different and each would need its own line in the hosts file...

Matt

 

[aphex]

i added forums.anandtech.com and it didnt block access

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
In IE: TOOLS - INTERNET OPTIONS - SECURITY - RESTRICTED SITES - Click the SITES button - type in the web address - click ADD - hit OKAY 🙂

Neither of them worked. 🙁

Now I'm 😕

 

[dugweb]

just excersise a little self control, or hide the power cord to your comp

 

[JonnyBlaze]

you have to close your browser completely before trying to access it again

Matt

 

[aux]

Originally posted by: aphex
i added forums.anandtech.com and it didnt block access

Close the browser and try again. If this doesn't work - restart the computer. It should work.

 

[pyonir]

no aphex at ATOT? 🙁

 

[EpsiIon]

It looks to me like the different categories in security settings are just there so you can treat certain sites differently than others. If you add forums.anandtech.com to your restricted sites and then edit your security settings for those sites so that IE won't allow anything to happen, that might block it.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

dang it! why didn't i think of this for this past week!! I really needed the time.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

nope, that restricted sites in IE doesn't work at all. Just rebooted. STILL HERE!

 

[Smolek]

Open up the host file, add the listing "forums.anandtech.com 127.0.0.1", save the file and then restart your browser.

 

[her209]

ipconfig /flushdns

 

[gwlam12]

he is gone...maybe he got it to work

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: Smolek
Open up the host file, add the listing "forums.anandtech.com 127.0.0.1", save the file and then restart your browser.

it'd be

127.0.0.1 forums.anandtech.com

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: gwlam12
he is gone...maybe he got it to work

It didn't aphex is still around 😀 😛

 

[abc]

ipconfig/flushdns is win2k only right, nt does not have that command, was there anything that performed the equivalent?