Best way to block web sites?

[acuariano]

Originally Posted by ellison64

I dont know if or what av you use but avast free has a site blocking feature under additional protection if you ever wanted to try it..You have to put the sites in manually but it does support *wildcards ,so you could put in *facebook mask and it blocks all instances in all browsers.You can also password protect avast if the filtering is for the kids.If you do try it ,bear in mind that current avast seems to be work in progress and some havent had any problems and some have.
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will this work like adding these sites in host file.??

[ellison64]

Originally Posted by acuariano

will this work like adding these sites in host file.??

I dont know as i dont use hosts file blocking ,but from what i gather ,you cant put *chat* in hosts file and block everything with the word chat in.In avast you can do that.

[avboy]

Originally Posted by ellison64

I dont know if or what av you use but avast free has a site blocking feature under additional protection if you ever wanted to try it..

I am keeping all products as my last option. I was using Online Armor perfectly. Suddenly after the latest update, site blocking broke down completely. Hence I'd like to use something that is right there in the OS (with some tweaking, perhaps) or at least is very tightly integrated with the OS.

[avboy]

Originally Posted by treehouse786

forticlient, yes forticlient! 12mb in size and by far the best web filter available anywhere and its free.

very nice program

Pretty late in the day to revisit this, I know, but I can't download forticlient from your link. It just stops midway (never beyond 4MB). Seems that they have changed to lite, that only Cnet installer will download!

[avboy]

[quote=Circe]I've tried a lot of web site blockers/filters because I have two teenage boys.The one that worked for me and IMHO is superior to them all is K9 WEBPROTECTION http://www1.k9webprotection.com/ it is free: /QUOTE]

Why do they ask for account creation? Does k9 phones home with my site visit stats?