How do you block only ONE particular website?

Question

There is a website that I want to block on my computer and I don't know how to block it without it affecting anything else on my computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

First, open Internet Explorer. Click "tools". If you can't see the menu bar(i.e. 7) click "tools" on the right side near the top, and click "menu bar"
anyways, on the tools menu, click "Internet Options"
then "security" tab
then click "restricted sites"
then click "sites"
then type in the URL of the website
then click add

this will not affect the general status or security level of the computer. It will just block the certain website.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You could make an entry in the hosts file that will redirect to a dummy address:

1) Go to: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
2) Open 'hosts' file in Notepad.
3) Below the '127.0.0.1 localhost' entry, type:
"0.0.0.0 "
4) Save and close the hosts file.

Now when you try to go to the website..it shouldn't work.

Answer 3

You can easily and effectivily block access to a website by adding it to your Windows HOSTS file. (Yes, Hosts is capitalised for some strange reason).

1.Go to your HOSTS file which is located at:
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for windows Vista and XP
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for Windows 2k
C:\WINDOWS for Windows 98 and ME

2. Open HOSTS with Notepad.

The default Windows HOSTS looks like this:
______________________

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a "#" symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
_____________________________

3. Directly under the line that says 127.0.0.1 Localhost, you will want to type:

127.0.0.1 name of the URL you want to block

For example to block the MySpace.com homepage (highly recommended!), simply type:

127.0.0.1 myspace.com
127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com

You will need to add sites with both with and without the "www.".

You can add as many sites as you wish to block in this fashion. I, myself, have over 12000 undesireable and dangerous sites in my personal HOSTS file!

4. Close Notepad and answer "Yes" when prompted.

5. Reboot your computer and attempt to access your now blocked website. You should see a Cannot find server or DNS Error saying: "The page cannot be displayed".

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Some people may suggest that you add a website that you wish to block by adding it to Internet Explorer's Restricted Zone. This does NOT totally block a site. It will only RESTRICT a site from certain actions such as using javascript, Active-X and Java etc.

Answer 4

One trick that works sometimes is to use the hosts file to redirect requests to the website to localhost. To do this , you find a file in \Windows\system32\drivers\etc named hosts (no extension) and add a line like
127.0.0.1 www.website-I-want-to-block.com

substitute the site you want to block for "www.website-I-want-to-block.com"
any time a website links to www.website-I-want-to-block.com, You browser will try to find the page on your own computer.

Answer 5

You can block sites in browsers by adding them to the Blocked Sites list in their Security properties. For example, in Internet Explorer you may go to Tools>Internet options>Security (tab) and selecting the "Restricted sites", then clicking the Sites button, add its URL (easier if the unwanted site is already open because its address would already be typed in the blocked zone text field), and hit OK. Good luck.

Answer 6

One way to block it would be to add an entry to your C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file and give it a bogus IP address.

Example:

192.168.1.255 www.somesite.com

The IP address above is probably unused in your local network (generally routers start assigning at 192.168.1.100 so unless you have 155 systems connecting, this is safe to use).

Answer 7

You can use a proxy.

im not so sure about the configurations for proxys,
but you can use web-proxys.
www.secure-tunnel.com
www.stayinvisible.com