How to block specific websites access in your computer?

There are several instances in which the user’s computer will be used by their friends or children to access websites that may have been affected by viruses and eventually causes harm to your computer. This in turn will make the user’s system slower in performance.

In order to stop this continuous and not so desirable usage of the websites, users can make use of several techniques in order to block specific websites.

The following steps have to be followed in order to block specific websites.

Click ‘Start’ or ‘Windows Emblem’ on the desktop screen

Select ‘All Programs’

Then click ‘Accessories’

In accessories, click ‘Command Prompt’

In the command prompt screen, type the command as ‘notepad C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts’

A notepad screen will be opened by the Host file

Choose the line that represents ‘127.0.0.1 localhost’ without any quotation marks

Under the specified line, users will have to enter the IP Address as well as the name of website users wish to block and make sure that it is followed by a space in between

Once you finish adding all the websites that you wish to block, users will have then to save the file

Then close the file

And finally close the Command Prompt screen

Locating IP Addresses

If the users want to identify the IP addresses of the website that they wish to block, the following steps have to be followed.

Click ‘Start’

Click All Programs

Then select ‘Accessories’

Select Command Prompt

Type in the following format: “ping www.websitename.com”

Ensure that quotation marks are not used

Press Enter

IP Addresses list will appear

Copy the IP Addresses

Paste the IP Addresses in a separate notepad and save the file

Users will now have to go back to the command prompt page

Again type the command as “ping www.websitename.com” in order to locate the host file

Enter each IP addresses followed by the website name on a separate line

If the user has six different IP addresses for the same website, then the users will have to enter the IP addresses separately in each line followed by the same website name

Note

IP addresses can be defined as an ‘internet protocol addresses’ that is represented as unique set of numbers that can be connected to each computer that is connected on the internet

Always make sure that the first line that denotes 127.0.0.1 localhost file should not be changed or modified

Password helps the users in preventing others to have unauthorized access to your computer