You probably felt the need to block certain sites from being accessed by different users, especially small children. These sites may contain offensive, vulgar, pornographic, unsocial or racist material. We will help in the following article to block such sites from being used by your children in a friendly and extremely efficient way.

First of all, we would recommend having the PC that is connected to the Internet to be placed in any other room except that of your child. This will not only allow you to control the amount of time he or she spends in front of the PC, but also see and control the websites your child visits. If this is not possible, please read further to find out more about the method of blocking sites easy and efficiently.

So, you have young daughter or son that has gained access to the internet, but since all of us know that not all of it is suitable to be viewed by minors. This means that the only real option is to block some of the sites you consider will damage your child’s normal development. You also want to avoid spending a lot of money on expensive software that also makes it extremely difficult. You can block these sites with a simple method, which we will explain in very easy to do steps, as follows.

The first step is going to the “Start” button and selecting “Run”. In the window that appears type the following: notepad c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and hit the “Enter” button. You will see a “Notepad” window pop-up. In this window, go down to the end of the text and after the last line hit “Enter” one time and write the following: 127.0.0.1 facebook.com for example. This block the Facebook site. For other sites to block, write the same code in front of the name of the site you want to block. Remember to save the file and exit. There. This is a simple method of blocking unwanted sites from being viewed from the computer. To unblock the sites just follow the same procedure but instead of adding them to the file, you will have to delete them and save the file. Be careful not to delete or modify anything in that file. Other than that, we believe that this is extremely straight forward and simple and any one can use it safely.

For any other questions or problems in using this method please contact us and we will help you solve your problem for no additional cost.