Web site blocking

[Graham]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:11:57 +0000
Garry Knight <garryknight at gmx.net> wrote:

> Harold Hartley wrote:
> 
> > I am wondering if anyone knows of a linux program that will allow
> > me to block specific web sites
> 
> Just to give you one more choice, SquidGuard will do this, but you'd
> also have to have Squid (a proxying server) installed as well.

...and another suggestion.  Before you get any program, install a Hosts
file to which you can add specific sites.  This works by directing your
browser to your own computer rather than the address of the site.
There are files which need a little bit of tweaking to make them useful
for Linux users, but probably the best one is at:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/

Next, get Privoxy to run as a proxy server.  You can adjust the
configuration file to block web sites and it will also block unwanted
ads.


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Graham