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Karadur

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Posted on 11-25-04 05:26 AM Link | Quote
Another question from me Anyhow, by reading the thread title, you should know what I want to do.

Main reason being, porn sites and the like have suddenly been appearing in the address list of Firefox. Before anyone assumes it, I'm not the one responsible. I learnt my lesson the first time we had the internet It's most likely either my brother or sister. My Dad's the only one that uses the computer other than them and me, and he's only on for half an hour or so a day.

I installed a keylogger to hopefully catch whoever was responsible for that, but so far it's not proven very useful. Just this afternoon, I had to leave the house to get my hair cut, and I came back, checked someone's log (I won't say whose), and lo, one of the sites that was accessed was some 'Lesbian Personals' thing I'd like to not have to delete all ways of opening internet browsers short of the run menu, folder path bars, and the explorer. I'm pretty confident that they wouldn't know they could get to the internet that way.

I'm just wondering if there's some way to get Firefox to block user-defined sites. I've looked through the tools menu, to no avail, but maybe there's some other way to do what I want. I know IE has a thing that allows you to block sites, but I don't want them using IE if I can at all help it

If you can help, thanks
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Posted on 11-25-04 05:32 AM Link | Quote
The is no way to do it with Firefox alone (as far as I Know). Just install a local proxy or something...
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Posted on 11-25-04 05:34 AM Link | Quote
ive been wondering the same thing....but if you just wanted most images not to appear on certain sites, you can go into the Web Features under Options, and beside Load Images, click the exceptions button, thats a way to piss them off, and probably get them to stop...you would just have to find what sites are getting visited.
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Posted on 11-25-04 07:00 AM Link | Quote
Start -> Run -> "notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" (no quotes)
Add the sites to the end of the list with '127.0.0.1' in front of them.
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Posted on 11-25-04 07:14 AM Link | Quote
I know there are ways to block specific sites without the host file. I couldn't find where though... but here's something if you only want specific sites: http://tln.lib.mi.us/~amutch/pro/phoenix/proxies.htm
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Posted on 11-25-04 08:06 AM Link | Quote
Modifying the hosts file looks like it'll work nicely. It may sound mean to say it, but I wish I could be there when someone tries to get to one of these sites now Does anyone know if it's possible to use wildcards in the host file? Just something like having this sort of entry in the file: 127.0.0.1 *porn*.*

FreeDOS: I'd use that method, but there's one problem. I just want to block those certain sites. There's far too many to think of that I use weekly to add them all into an 'allow' list Thanks for the suggestion though

What you said, Dcahrakos, about just blocking images, that'd work as well, but I'm taking HyperHacker's suggestion because Adam and Naomi (my brother and sister) are extremely unlikely to ever find out exactly what's blocking the sites. If I just do something through the options menu, they stand a good chance of looking in there, and deleting the certain entries

Thanks for the help


(edited by Karadur on 11-24-04 11:37 PM)
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