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How to block a site

There are a number of ways to block a particular website from being accessed by users of your internet network. Most offices and schools blocks certain websites that are deemed immaterial and only provides waste of time when surfing these websites, like networking sites that may take the precious time of students who, instead of researching on the internet, are spending too much time on these websites. Same thing with office workers who should be able to work properly are sometimes tempted to visit illegal websites that displays nudity and violence.

Good thing is there are a lot of ways to solve this problem and that is by blocking particular websites considered inappropriate and to make it away from being accessed in your place of work, schools or even your personal home to also protect your children from accessing these harmful websites.

It all depends on the security level that you want, learning a simple way of blocking a website is very easy and may only take one simple adjustment of your internet browser, the use of filtering software in the internet or host file editing is done as well. At each level you can try a few of these methods and see which way best works for you.

How to block a particular website using your Internet Explorer

Although Internet Explorer version 5 and later has the ability to increase privacy and security you can still able to block a website by simply following the instructions below:

1. Load and open your Internet Explorer browser
2. Click “Tools”
3. Click “Internet options”
4. Click the “Privacy” tab
5. Found under the Privacy window, you can click on “Sites”
6. Then just simply type in the website address that you want to block and then click on the “OK” button. This method only blocks one website at a time; you need to use parental control type of software in order for you to block numerous websites and other websites categories.

This is the simplest way of blocking a website. For starters, you can block the most frequent website that is being accessed in your office and school that has nothing to do with your line of job or a website that does not offer school children anything valuable to gain from.

Remember, websites that dictates wrong notions and encourages bad things are harmful and therefore needed to be blocked from being accessed and at the same time protect users from falling prey to these unscrupulous websites that does not offer any positive traits.

There are many website blocking software out in the market today and using it is very easy. All you need to do is enter the many websites you want to block and just follow the instructions provided so you can easily get on with blocking many websites and at the same time protecting your computer and your household, office and school from websites that does not bring any good at all.

Blocking websites is a right and therefore should be done in any establishments in order to protect users from accessing harmful and nonsense websites.