Re: How do I Block MSN...

"Steve" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Son has a PC, and is quite responsible using it, but have found that he is
> tempted to spend all the evening after school on MSN and Facebook, and
> also late at night, chatting to his friends.
>
> I have a Dell router, and I have used this to quite successfully block all
> traffic to his PC after 2230 to stop him spending all night on it. However
> between the hours of 1530 and 1700, I would like to block MSN and
> Facebook. Facebook, and any other sites I see to be a problem are blocked
> quite successfully, but MSN seems to run through anything I throw at it,
> unless I block all traffic completely.
>
> I know people will say he will find other methods of procrastination, but
> I have found he works quite well at homework without the computer, but I
> don't want to block him using it for coursework research.
>
> This will need to be a router solution that prevents MSN from connecting,
> but only during specified times, working normally otherwise. Looks like
> blocking the addresses it uses to connect is the only way, because it
> likes to use HTTP when it can't get through any other way.
MSN is notoriously hard to block completely - plenty of IT departments have
struggled with doing this.
I think you'll struggle with just a small domestic router

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Alex

On Sun, 30 May 2010 08:29:39 +0100
"Dr Zoidberg" <AlexNOOOO!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote:

> MSN is notoriously hard to block completely - plenty of IT
> departments have struggled with doing this.
> I think you'll struggle with just a small domestic router
>
A rootkit, OTOH, could just sit there looking for the offending windows
and kill them.