Since Internet has started way back in 1989 , there have been numerous changes in the internet usage.
Even the browsers used to browse Internet have undergone different changes to make your browsing experience very good.
If you are in a college, school where you want your students to not open some websites, you can easily manage the websites from your central routers or firewalls but in some places like home where parents can not install firewalls they can easily block certain websites to reach your children.
Today we will learn How to Block Website in Internet Explorer 6
Step 1
Blocking a website in Internet Explorer 6 begins with opening up Internet Explorer 6 and then looking into the Internet options.
After going to Internet options you will be able to find out that there are different tabs that point to different settings, you need not to go into deep about different tabs.
Coming directly to what we are going to work on.
- Go to Content
- Look at Content Advisor
- Click on Enable
Step 2
Step 2 Involves adding the websites that you do not want your kids/ people you love to watch or browse.
You go on to approved sites and add websites that you want to always let people browse and also add sites that you do not want people to browse.
Like I have added two websites
- http://www.google.com
- http://www.google.co.in
to my never allow list.
The websites in your ignore list or Never List will be given a Red (-)
as you can see in the picture on right side.
The sites in your allowed list will have Green Icon ahead of them
Step 3
Well all necessary steps have been done, the last step is used in case you want to remember your password for Content Advisor, if you want to update your websites list. You can see the image and do the needful.
Go over to General Tab in Content Advisor.
Change the settings if you want to.
You can even change the password.
After doing all these activities, when the person tries to open up the website, a Window will open up requiring a password to open up the website. Thus you can save your children to view illegal websites.
There are other numerous ways to block websites using software’s but that will be dealt in different post.