Block Unwanted Sites Without Installing Any Software.

Block Unwanted Sites Without Installing Any Software

Block Unwanted Sites Without Installing Any Software.

Date: 31 Aug 2008/ Views: 4122 / Comments: 3

Do you want to block a certain websites to prevent your kids from access to these sites?, or you want to block it because it has virus, Trojan or malware?, whatever the reason you want to block this site.

Of course there are many software that allow you to block some websites, but what if you wanted just to block one or two websites? installing software takes memory disks pace and CPU power making your computer more slower.

Instead of installing any additional software there is trick you can use to block and redirect certain website to other safe websites, in windows there is file called the Hosts files which is used to control mapping networks names

The hosts file is located in "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc" we are going to edit it to block certain websites

1) Go to this directory [c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc], directory may change according to drive used for os installation

2) then hit enter

3) find a file named "hosts"

4) Right click on it and open with word pad.

5) In the last line of the document type the IP* address of any website that you want to redirect your blocked sites to. (For example: if you want to block google.com and redirect it to yahoo.com.. type the ip address of yahoo.com , give space and type the domain name google.com..

209.131.36.158 google.com

Here the ip address is of yahoo and the domain name is google so when anyone types google.com in your computer, they will be redirected to yahoo instead of google. If you dont want to redirect the blocked site to any other site , then you can use your own localhost ip 127.0.0.1)

6) now save it

7) restart the browser if its already running

8) Now try it, It works perfect

You can also try this your frieds pc and public pc and make them blink by redirecting one website to another.

IP*: to find IP address of that website Goto start ->Run > type cmd > enter. Now you have a new window on desktop. On that type this without cotes "ping www. yahoo.com"

replace yahoo.com with your preferred site and then enter it.