Hers is a limited account, and unable to modify system files.

Galen wrote:

>In news:43bc3245$0$18386$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com,
>Patrick Coghlan <info@coghlan.ca> had this to say:
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> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
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>>Excellent! I'll give it a try. Thanks.
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>>My 16 year-old might not be too happy though :-(
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>>-Pat
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>>Jonathan Kay [MVP] wrote:
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>>>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
>>>All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2006 Jonathan Kay.
>>>You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"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. 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
>>>>
>>>>
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>Or she'll figure out how to edit the hosts file on her own. <g> So some
>additional information.
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>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.
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>iProtectYou:
>http://www.snapfiles.com/get/iprotectyou.html
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>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.
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>Firewalls - Basics:
>http://kgiii.info/windows/all/securi...ls-basics.html
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