# How to block websites at work
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [April 1, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444 "2009-04-01T06:04:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/1 "2009-04-01T06:04:32Z")
My assistant has been really pissing me off lately.
How can I block facebook on just her computer?
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### Author:  [@9c1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/2 "2009-04-01T06:06:20Z")
Are you guys connecting through an Internet appliance or proxy firewall? If not, you could always put a dummy proxy into IE on her machine and hope she isn’t smart enough to find it. But that would cut all of her Internet access.
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/3 "2009-04-01T06:06:57Z")
edit the hosts file
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/4 "2009-04-01T06:22:46Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#):
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> edit the hosts file
x2
If shes not an admin, she wont be able to edit it back.
Edit the file as an administrator: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
Put in it every URL you want to block. Facebook uses a bunch of different URLs I think so you might need to go on it and see what ones are blocked.
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/5 "2009-04-01T06:29:54Z")
pretend like I am not an IT guy, spell it out for me. Edit host means nothing to me.
what file do i edit as an administrator?
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### Author:  [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/6 "2009-04-01T06:32:38Z")
websense!
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### Author:  [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/7 "2009-04-01T06:35:07Z")
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/8 "2009-04-01T06:38:29Z")
1. Open notepad
2. File\> Open and go to that folder
3. Change File Type to All Files
4. Open the file hosts
5. Paste in this:
127.0.0.1 [facebook.com](http://facebook.com)
127.0.0.1 [www.facebook.com](http://www.facebook.com)
127.0.0.1 [new.facebook.com](http://new.facebook.com)
127.0.0.1 [login.facebook.com](http://login.facebook.com)
save and good to go
Someone who uses facebook see what urls it uses. I don’t use it so i am not sure what exact pages to block.
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### Author:  [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/9 "2009-04-01T06:41:03Z")
> [@93dx--hatch](#):
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> pretend like I am not an IT guy, spell it out for me. Edit host means nothing to me.
>
> what file do i edit as an administrator?
Open up the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in notepad
Below all the lines starting with “#” add the following:
127.0.0.1 [www.facebook.com](http://www.facebook.com)
127.0.0.1 [facebook.com](http://facebook.com)
Save the file, she should be done.
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/10 "2009-04-01T06:51:16Z")
thanks, I can’t wait to ruin her day, and hopefully she will start working again
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 6:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/11 "2009-04-01T06:57:19Z")
You could just fire her. I bet there is a lot of people in Buffalo who would be willing to work.
Does she need the internet? You can just disable internet access for her.
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### Author:  [@POOPRA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/POOPRA)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/12 "2009-04-01T07:06:20Z")
I Hope she doesnt have a iphone
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/13 "2009-04-01T07:17:45Z")
> [@boxxa](#):
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> You could just fire her. I bet there is a lot of people in Buffalo who would be willing to work.
>
> Does she need the internet? You can just disable internet access for her.
I really can’t fire her, she has been with the company for 3 years, and my boss really likes her.
She does need the internet, she prints directions, looks up flights, book hotels, googles people, etc.
In the past year she has become super lazy. Yesterday I asked her to write 4 thank you letters and look up some flights. It took her like 3 hours, every time I walked by she would be typing some huge fucking story on Facebook, like paragraphs. I have no problem with going on facebook and surfing the web at work, but just finish your work then do it.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/14 "2009-04-01T07:33:08Z")
> [@93dx--hatch](#):
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> I really can’t fire her, she has been with the company for 3 years, and my boss really likes her.
>
> She does need the internet, she prints directions, looks up flights, book hotels, googles people, etc.
>
> In the past year she has become super lazy. Yesterday I asked her to write 4 thank you letters and look up some flights. It took her like 3 hours, every time I walked by she would be typing some huge fucking story on Facebook, like paragraphs. I have no problem with going on facebook and surfing the web at work, but just finish your work then do it.
Edit the hosts file. Simple. Dirty. Hard to detect. She might just think its down. Lol.
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### Author:  [@Willybeen](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Willybeen)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/15 "2009-04-01T07:46:52Z")
^ lol
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/16 "2009-04-02T14:02:26Z")
Might want to rethink this. I hate facebook/myspace. I like twitter tho.
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>
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### Author:  [@ILC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILC)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/17 "2009-04-02T14:08:27Z")
69.42.65.4 [facebook.com](http://facebook.com)
69.42.65.4 [www.facebook.com](http://www.facebook.com)
🙂
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### Author:  [@SkunkApe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SkunkApe)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/18 "2009-04-02T14:09:15Z")
lol…i wanna hear updates on this.
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/19 "2009-04-02T14:11:28Z")
Its funny because im pretty sure in all of our (nyspeeders) coworkers eyes we are this facebook girl lol.
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### Author:  [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2009, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-to-block-websites-at-work/65444/20 "2009-04-02T14:14:35Z")
set up a redirect to [meatspin.com](http://meatspin.com)…she’ll think twice about going on [facebook.com](http://facebook.com). or maybe setup a batch file so every time she tries to access facebook it restarts her computer.
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Maybe you shouldn’t block her…☹
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