How to Block Harmful Websites on your Computer?

Most of the websites are there that targets our Computer for their benefits, Whenever  they founds any little weakness of our PC security  they start downloads their files  to your Computer without your permission. These files are dangerous for PC, It will firstly attack on our PC security and make it disable and then whenever you login to these site they further download more file to your PC. There is a solution of these types of Websites, Just we need to Block those website that are somewhere harm our PC.

1. Goto StartàMy Computerà C:\ DriveàWindowsà(Find ‘Hosts’ file)

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for Vista and XP

C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC for Win 2000

C:\WINDOWS for Windows 98 and ME

2. Now Open HOSTS file with Notepad.

The default Windows HOSTS looks like this:

______________________

# Copyright © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.

# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.

# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each

# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should

# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.

# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one

# space.

# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual

# lines or following the machine name denoted by a “#” symbol.

# For example:

# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server

# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

127.0.0.1 localhost

_____________________________

3. Directly under the line that says 127.0.0.1 Localhost, you will want to type:

127.0.0.1 name of the URL you want to block

For example to block the website softpedia.com, simply type:

127.0.0.1 softpedia.com

127.0.0.1 www.softpedia.com

Other parts of MySpace could be blocked in a similar way:

127.0.0.1 search.softpedia.com

127.0.0.1 profile.softpedia.com

etc …

It is necessary to add a website with and without the “www.”. You can add any number of websites to this list.

4. Save the Notepad file.

5. After blocking the website, test it in any of the browser. 

Posted in: Personal Tech,Windows 7

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