Just thought I'd share this gem I found a little while ago
This prank is to block websites (you can also have it redirect to another website). Great for pranks, or if you're a parent and feel like blocking all 193,947,803 porn sites out there. I used it to block facebook, as I never use it, yet my sister will sit in front of MY computer all day, playing crappy apps such as farmville. So now whenever she goes to facebook.com on my computer, she gets redirected to zombo.com (a) Theres so much fun to be had!
Heres how:
Open Notepad (If you are using Vista, RIGHT-Click on Notepad and click "Run as Administrator")
On Notepad, Click File - Open, then choose Computer - Partition - Windows - System32 - Driver - Etc, Then on the drop down menu that says "Text Documents (*.txt)" (above the Open and Cancel buttons) choose All Files. Now open the file "Hosts". Now if you want to Block a site (so if the victim goes to the site, it'll say there is an error) at the bottom of the file type this:
BTW it won't let me put tabs in my post for some reason, so where it says TAB put a tab.
127.0.0.1 TAB www.WEBSITE.com
127.0.0.1 TAB website.com
(it is important to put both lines, one with WWW, and one without.
Now press save, and voila! To get rid of the block, just go back to the file, and delete what you put in.
These are instructions for Vista, XP should work similarly. Enjoy :D
Yay for pranks ;)
Sun, 15/11/2009 - 2:28pm
#1
Yay for pranks ;)
Sun, 15/11/2009 - 2:33pm
#2
oops, forgot to show you how to redirect to another site :P to make it redirect to another site, you'll want to use the same instructions as above, but instead of 127.0.0.1, you'll want to put the IP Address of the website you want your victim to be redirected to. To do this, Open Run (Vista users, to find Run, search run on start menu) and search CMD. In the CMD window, after C:\Users\YOU>, type in Ping WWW.WEBSITE.COM. The big number with decimals in it that shows up several times is the websites IP Address. Enjoy! :)
Sun, 15/11/2009 - 2:35pm
#3
Is the 127.0.0.1 a set number, or do you mean that IP address of the site?
Also how do you tell it to go to a different site?
And what would happen if I made a loop between two or more sites of block and redirect? would it just stop?
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Sun, 15/11/2009 - 2:35pm
#4
NM you said how to redirect ;) lol I posted late
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Sun, 15/11/2009 - 2:40pm
#5
Mine has about 1100 lines already listed, then at the bottom it says:
# End of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy
Would I post the one I'd want to do after that?
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Sun, 15/11/2009 - 3:37pm
#6
[quote=davymuncher]Mine has about 1100 lines already listed, then at the bottom it says:
# End of entries inserted by Spybot - Search & Destroy
Would I post the one I'd want to do after that?
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Yeah, just post it at the very bottom of the file.
Sun, 15/11/2009 - 3:53pm
#7
Why would I ever want to block a porn site *unsure* JOKING JOKING!! Very nice trick :P
Mon, 16/11/2009 - 3:46pm
#8
Awww I can't save it, it's like "you cannot change this file" (Not direct words, but similar)
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