How to Protect Your Children / Students from Unwanted & Bad Websites. How to Block All Unwanted Web Sites

How to Protect Your Children / Students from Unwanted & Bad Websites? How to Block All Unwanted Web Sites? This is a main problem that parents are having when their children are work with Internet. Parents are unable to keep eye on child every time when thy use Internet. So Parent must have to take permanent Action to prevent children from unwanted and bad web sites.

How Parents Can Block Unwanted and Bad Website for Children?

Parents can lot of action to do this. There are many ways. What are they? There are two main things parents can do.

1. Parents can some software to block unwanted web site.
2. Parents can get the support from Internet Service Provider (ISP) Support to do this.

Now I am going to talk another thing which parents can do to block bad website in simple way. This you can so easily although you don't have proper knowledge about computer. Now will see how to do this.

First log in to Computer using a administrator account. Then go to My Computer --> C: Drive --> Windows --> system32 --> drivers --> etc folder. Now double click on "host" file and open it with Note pad.

Now you can see the host file as below. Bottom of the file it will show an IP Address and mention as localhost.

Now we will see how to block a website by this host file. Its a simple. you have to type same IP address and type the URL you want to block under localhost as below picture. after type all block URL by adding to host file save the file and close. Now try to visit block website using your browser. You can see now those web sites are not accessible.

In the 2nd picture I have block facebook & yahoo web sites as example. Now if I try to visit facebook.com for yahoo.com web site browser will say unable to connect. Hope you understand how to block unwanted & bad web site using host file in your computer.

Fore more security you can do below good practices.

Don't allowed child to log on computer with administrator rights. To learn how to create a Limited user account please Click Here.
Check the history of your child activity when you have a time.
Check the CD/ DVD/ removable devices which your Child use when you have time.

If you have any problem please post here.

GOOD LUCK!