Block Websites

 

There are two ways to block websites for users, either in a network or home.

First one is by doing it through browsers, its easy and all browsers now in use support this feature.

But when there are many browsers used its necessary to do those steps in all browsers.

Second one is doing it manually and its quite simple. Provided there is no need to do it in each and every browser.

How you can do it?

Follow these steps:

Either through command prompt or explorer go to  this path  C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts and open the hosts file using notepad or WordPad.

Locate the line 127.0.0.1 localhost . Its at the bottom.

 Assume  that we are going to block  yahoo.com

To block the website yahoo.com, just add this text

“127.0.0.1 yahoo.com 127.0.0.1 www.yahoo.com” (without quotes) under the line 127.0.0.1 localhost.

Save the file.

Now try to open yahoo.com with all browsers in use.

Voila!!The website is blocked.

By following these steps, any website can be blocked.

(Note: Its necessary to block access to system32 files for users)