A Guide on How to Block Unwanted Sites on Your PC
There are many factors that may prompt you
to block a specific website or a number of them on your computer. There are
certain websites that contain harmful content and even viruses. Others may even
hack your personal information and jeopardize your privacy. Even though you may
choose to visit such sites, those who use your computer may do so without even
knowing, and this may pose a threat.
In such a circumstance, it becomes
extremely crucial to block these websites, and there are a couple of ways you
can do this. You can block sites on your browsers, your computer, router and so
much more. Our main theme in this article is to block unwanted sites on the
computer.
You can control how people access your computer
by setting up your operating system to block the unwanted websites. The method
used for blocking websites is quite simple to configure, and it work easily
with different browsers the DNS is one of the most important system of the
internet. This system can translate different names such as Twitter which is
the same as 8.8.8.8. When use the Servers to access sites, your computer has
crucial tools referred to as hosts files. This file contain very important
information, stored locally. This information can be used to block access to
websites. This method works perfectly with windows 7 and 8.
Now, let’s check out the steps to block
unwanted websites from your computer
First and foremost, you have to make sure
that you have access to the administrator account on your computer. Log into your
computer as an administrator and press ‘’C: \Windows\System32\drivers\etc.\’’. After
that, you have to double click the file that is named as ‘’Hosts’’ and select
the notepad from the programs that have been highlighted and then click on
‘’open’’ to enter the file. Lastly, click on the ‘’OK’’ tab. You will see two
last lines on the hosts, which are supposed to read the following “#:1
localhost" as well as “# 127.0.0.1 localhost"
If you find it hard to edit the file, you
can just right click the file named ‘’hosts’’ and select the ‘’properties’’ tab.
Once you are done, click the ‘’security’’ tab and select the administrator
account and edit.
In the ‘’popup’’ page, select the account again
and go to the tab named ‘’full control’’, and then click ‘’Apply’’ and select
‘’YES’’. Once you are done, click ‘’OK’’ in all the pop-ups. Finally, at the
end of the file, add the address of the site or sites you want to disable.
Insert another line at the end of the file together with 127.0.0.1 and then
type the name of the site you want disable, and the site will be directed to
the computer.
After blocking the unwanted site, the last
crucial step is to save your changes and then make sure you reboot your
computer and changes will be effective as soon as the computer restarts
