Excellent! I'll give it a try. Thanks.

My 16 year-old might not be too happy though :-(

-Pat

Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:

>Greetings Pat,
>
>The easiest way would just to put a bad entry in the Windows hosts file.
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>To do so, open up Notepad, click File, then Open, and enter
>"%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" and click OK.
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>You'll see a 127.0.0.1 localhost entry. Simply make a new line after that, and add:
>127.0.0.1 webmessenger.msn.com
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>Then save the file, and after a reboot, they won't be able to access the Web Messenger
>anymore.
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>"Patrick Coghlan" <info@coghlan.ca> wrote in message
>news:43bc12dd$0$5797$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
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>>I use Windows permissions to enable/disable my kids' access to MSN messenger, but they (my
>>kids) found a back door in the form of a web-based version of this tool.
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>>How can I permanently turn off just the web-based version? I suspect that this might be a
>>bit tricky, as appears to be just a browser window which gets refreshed at
>>webmessenger.msn.com.
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>>-Pat
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