Tuesday, August 3, 2010

BLOCK A WEBSITE FROM ACCESSING USING YOUR COMPUTER.

If you want to block a site from accessing using your computer this article is for you.people want to block some sites from accessing using their computer for many reasons like their children are wasting much of time on that site,etc...

Things to be done:
1) Browse to C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc(etc is a folder name)
2) Find the file named "HOSTS"
3) Open it with notepad
4) Under "127.0.0.1 localhost" Add 127.0.0.2 www.example.com(www.example.com is the site you want to block from accesssing on your computer) , and that site will no longer be accessable.
5)you are done that site cannot be accessed from you system

You can block as many sites as you want just you have to chage the last digit in the 127.0.0.1

 like
          127.0.0.2  www.example.com
          127.0.0.3  www.example1.com
if you copy the above two lines at the end of HOSTS file www.example.com,www.example1.com are not accessible using your computer.

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