Hello,
Is there a way I can ban access to a website's domain on Windows 2000 (Hopefully not IE-specific)? Do I need extra software or can the OS do it?
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Hello,
Is there a way I can ban access to a website's domain on Windows 2000 (Hopefully not IE-specific)? Do I need extra software or can the OS do it?
If you're the only user then
Edit c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Add something like
Anything trying to resolve that address will get loop backed to your local machine, where it will no doubt result in "not found".
However, this doesn't prevent people using actual IP addresses to access the same domain. For that, you need some kind of firewall.
i tried that using
"127.0.0.1 lchst" (using win98 mind) to cut loclahost short, and it didn't work :s)
Alright, I'll clarify it a bit. I'm trying to stop RealPlayer from updating itself. I wanna stick with version 8, but every time I play an URL it keeps looking to RealNetwork's servers to find an update, and once it's sniffed something new it absolutely will not stop until it updates (You can't play ANY files until it updates). :mad:
Obviously I don't know to what addresses it's referring to to find updates, so a blanket ban on real.com would be nice.
Been down the hosts route but it only goes for specific DNS entries, not domains. Any ideas on a firewall (ZoneAlarm doesn't seem to do it)? :confused:
Well the way you find out where it's going is by running ethereal while its trying an update
Dunno about the firewall thing, like whether you need the pro version of zone alarm or not. I thought the free version allowed you to specify IP addresses to block.
if you have a router you can do it internally on the router then you can get around the whole hosts file thing...though I like the hosts file, I use it quite a bit for blocking sites.