Re: Is there such a thing?

"Wagg" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A charity I do free work for wants to block traffic to some websites
from some computers. They have 10 computers, and want 8 of them
blocked from acessing certain websites, the remaining two to be
allowed access to anything.

I've tried putting the web addresses into the firewall program, but
then it blocks all of them. They want to either block these activities
or at the very minimum monitor them and prove what is going on.

Can anyone reccomend anything?


Assuming that these other computers are locked into restricted normal user
accounts, you could just use a HOSTS file to redirect those sites to a
webpage that just says that this site has been blocked, or whatever. There
would be ways around it, but it'd be effective against the average user.

ss.


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