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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