http://forum.werockyourweb.com/ We Rock Your Web Forum Tag: block websites - Recent Posts en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:06:13 +0000 http://forum.werockyourweb.com/security/block-websites-host-file#post-22 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:49:50 +0000 cwd 22@http://forum.werockyourweb.com/ <p>Great question. You can indeed block a list of web sites using your host file. First, your host file is most commonly located in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS.</p> <p>Use Notepad or Wordpad to edit it, but save a backup copy first. Also note that if you save without specifying an extension, Windows will, by default, add a ".txt" extension to the file, so you'll be left with an unusable HOSTS.txt. To prevent this, rename the original hosts file to HOSTS.bak, and the new HOSTS.txt one to simply HOSTS.</p> <p>Add a commented section to place your blocked websites and then block them like this:</p> <p># Manual entries<br /> 127.0.0.1 example.com</p> <p>You can list as many as you want. All this does is point your browser at 127.0.0.1 - which is a loop back to your own PC, instead of sending you to the offending website. </p> http://forum.werockyourweb.com/security/block-websites-host-file#post-21 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:44:56 +0000 asterix 21@http://forum.werockyourweb.com/ <p>I'm trying to read this financial article on Seeking Alpha and the web page, right after loading, gets redirected to some spammy "personal antivirus" site. </p> <p>I can manually block web pages in each of my browsers, but I seem to remember there being a way to do it for all of them at once, and having the capability to import multiple websites to block at once (similar to how Spybot S&amp;D does it) using my Windows hosts file? </p> <p>Is there a way to block websites using the host file? </p>