How to block Internet Sites in Windows

Do you have common computer in your home? And your 10 year old daughter or son can access internet without any restrictions in the sites? Are you worried that they might accidentaly access a pornographic websites that can pollute their fresh virgin minds? Well, I will show you a simple trick that you can use to block unecessary sites, not only sex related, nude picture sites but all internet web sites you wanted to.

This method is so simple to follow that even if your not that techy, you can seamlessly implement it. This tutorial was tested only in Windows Vista and Windows XP but no harm in trying with other Windows Operating System like Windows 7.

The first step is to open the command prompt. You can do so by clicking Start then find Run or you can perform keyboard shortcut which is WINDOW+R. Then, type cmd in the textbox. Click OK. See sample image.



Command prompt window will then open up. In the blinking cursor, type this commad:

notepad C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Then ENTER.

A notepad file will open up similar to the image below.

Then under 127.0.0.1 localhost type:

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com (this is a sample website that you want to block)

If you want to add other sites, just type another entry below the first one. It will show like this:

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.friendster.com
so on..
so on..

Then save it by FILE>SAVE. Or shortcut CTRL+S. Close the text file.

To test, open your Internet browser and try to access the block sites you entered a while ago.

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