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Block access to website

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anime

Flightless Bird
How to block access to target website on windows XP, so it can no longer be
accessed, and that browser can no connects to that address? (for Firefox and
IE).
 
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Bert Hyman

Flightless Bird
In news:uX0xBl7ELHA.4504@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl "anime"
<anime@nospam.microsoft.com> wrote:

> How to block access to target website on windows XP, so it can no
> longer be accessed, and that browser can no connects to that address?
> (for Firefox and IE).


How clever is the user you're trying to stymie?

The simplest way is to create an entry in the subject's hosts file like
this:

127.0.0.1 target.website.com

That's in

%WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


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Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com
 
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