Internet explorer

[pea33nut]

I have a friend who wants to block sites from thier children. I went into tools-internet options-security and selected restricted sites. I type in one of the names but I could still access this. Does the computer need to be set up with an administrator and then the children would sign in as users? Any info on this would be great.

 

[Schadenfroh]

use your hosts file to block the ip address by redirecting it to 127.0.0.1

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
use your hosts file to block the ip address by redirecting it to 127.0.0.1

Yea that's one way of doing it. Kind of tedious though for the technically unsaavy..

The Restricted Sites are for filtering harmful content, not actually blocking anything.

Go to the Content tab, click Enable under Content Advisor. Go to the Approved Sites tab, and type in the site you want to block and click Never. When you're done click OK, then you will be prompted to add a password to the content advisor. Use a SIMPLE password that is really easy to remember.

 

[pea33nut]

Not sure how use the host file? Could you exlpain it too me?

Thanks

 

[ahurtt]

Your host file is in your C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc directory. It is just called "hosts" with no . extension. It is a plain text file so if you edit it, make sure to save it as such. Don't save it as a Word document or something like that. And make sure whatever editor you use does not automatically put some kind or .txt extension on it or something when you save. All it is is a TAB or space delimited file mapping host names /aliases to IP addresses. Like so for example:

localhost 127.0.0.1

Which tells the system that the URL or hostname "http://localhost" for example, goes to 127.0.0.1 (which is the "local loopback" ip address in the IP protocol which means "myself")

You can map any other hostnames or URL's you want to 127.0.0.1 in this file so that when they are accessed, the system tries to go back to itself to find the server, which it will not find and you'll get the standard "Server not found" display in IE. So you could add on a new line:

www.p0rnsite.com 127.0.0.1

Which will cause this URL to always resolve to IP 127.0.0.1 thus "intercepting" more than blocking the request. Really you can redirect to any IP address you want, the system doesn't really care.