Some of common reasons to
block unwanted websites are,
may be you wants to avoid
spammers, porn and gambling
sources.
At home may be you
want to prevent your children to access explicit or crude
language sites. You can block
the unwanted websites in all
web browsers without using
any third party software. This
process only needs to edit the system host file. Perform the following steps to edit the system host file: To active this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer with administrative rights.
First click on Start buttonand select "Run". Now type"notepad" c:\WINDOWS
\system32\drivers\etc
\hosts" then press Ok button
to open host file. Now a notepad window will
appear with the title "host
Notepad". Now locate the line 127.0.0.1
localhost and here press the
Enter key to change the line
then type the websites name.
For example if you want to
block site www.myspace.com then type as: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 www.myspace.com Here you can add many sites
with prefix 127.0.0.1. Now go to File menu and
save these setting. When you want to restore
access to this site, simply
remove this line and again
save it. Close the host file and
reboot your computer after any changes to go into effect