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There are lots of sites on the internet nowadays that anybody can access to see pornographic materials. This proves to be a nightmare for parents as their kids can get exposed to such materials without their knowing. There are a number of ways to block these sites or to monitor the sites visited by your kids but usually it requires software applications to do so.

There is, in fact, a proven and effective way to block known pornographic or “bad” sites from being accessed from your computer even without any use of a software. This is a simple way to block sites that you could follow in a breeze.

(for Window XP user only)

Step 1: First browse , C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc then look for a file with the name “hosts”.

Step 2: Open it using the Notepad. At the bottom as you scroll down, add in this line 127.0.0.1 www.blockthissite.com where blockthissite is just an example URL that you could replace with the sites you want to block. See example hosts file.

Just press Enter after then type again another line for another site you want to black and so on until you blocked all sites you don’t want to be accessed in your home. Then after the last blocked site, click Enter once more then just save and close the file.

That’s it! It’s very easy!