In news:43bc3245$0$18386$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com,
Patrick Coghlan <info@coghlan.ca> had this to say:
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> 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. To do so, open up Notepad, click File, then Open, and enter
>> "%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" and click OK.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Then save the file, and after a reboot, they won't be able to access
>> the Web Messenger anymore.
>> ____________________________________________
>> Jonathan Kay
>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
>> Associate Expert
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>> Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
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>>
>>
>>
>> "Patrick Coghlan" <info@coghlan.ca> wrote in message
>> news:43bc12dd$0$5797$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>>
>>
>>> 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. 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.
>>>
>>> -Pat
Or she'll figure out how to edit the hosts file on her own. <g> So some
additional information.
I've never used this product (and hope I never have to) but I've recommended
it to a lot of people to try. It's free and it's been fairly well received
thus far.
iProtectYou:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/iprotectyou.html
Additionally some firewalls (third party) will allow blocking of certain
URLs and will allow password restriction on changing the firewall settings
or even turning off the firewall.
Firewalls - Basics:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/securi...ls-basics.html
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