Good man, hosts file should be fine then.
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"Patrick Coghlan" <info@coghlan.ca> wrote in message
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> 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:
>>
>> My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
>>
>>
>>>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
>>>>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 ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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
>>
>>