Need Your Help

[Dharmpal Singh]

I m a computer teacher. in our school internet is only provided for viewing Think.com but some student view other sites instead of think.com So i want to ristrict other sites & also want to ristrict downloading. Is their is any trick by which i can do this.

[ilugd]

setup a proxy on one system, prevent direct access to the internet and configure the proxy to disallow other webistes. I guess squid is good for that.

[deepak.krishnan]

If you are sure of the sites that students visit then you may enter those sites in the restricted sites list here:
Internet Explorer -> tools -> Internet Options -> security -> restricted -> sites
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[Kiran.dks]

Install 'FreeShield'.

• parental control software that gives you complete control.

• It can be as strict or open as you want.

• popup blocker

• completely erase your surfing tracks at the touch of a button.

Freeware Download: FREE SHIELD

[ilugd]

freeshield!!?? I just setup freeshield. Put it on its strictest setting and allowed connection to www.google.com. Then tried to access yahoo.com. It blocked access, ok so far. Then just went to tools>manage addons and disabled freeshield. Restarted IE. End of story. And what can you do about firefox and a miriad other clients. I feel that client based access can easily be circumvented by the user (especially in a school)

[Kiran.dks]

The story is not over yet! Just don't allow Users to enable or disable add-ons! I guess in Dharmpal's case the school kids are not allowed as administrators to log-in to the system.

And regarding other internet browsers, just don't allow to install it.

[anandk]

click How to restrict downloading programs with Internet Explorer

i second ufo007's suggestion.
download and use 'ZonedOut' to do it easily.

and/or go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
open host file. add the following entry to it

127.0.0.1 www.thenameofthesiteuwant2block.com

save it. replace the old one with this new one.

use host manager utility from to achieve this; its easier.

this shud take care of ur problem

[ilugd]

i am not sure if todays kids, let alone teenagers will be deterred by a hosts file hack.