Questions tagged [blocking]
Blocking is denying access to something. You can block applications, websites, access, or any other number of things. Blocking will stop the item from accessing whatever you've blocked it from.
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Best way to block websites with PowerDNS?
I'm working on a DNS filtering system for my household. I have a blacklist from MESD with a list of both IPs and domains, but am not sure how to block them with the blacklist. I thought about using ...
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How to block facebook in iBall router?
I use iBall Baton router. Its product code is iB WRA 150N. I want to block facebook in it. So I typed 192.168.1.1 in my browser and entered username and password to reach the page of iBall.
There I ...
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Avoiding geo-blocking
I'm trying to avoid a Spanish site blocking me because of my location in UK.
I joined Golden Frog VyperVPN and I could connect to their sever in Spain, so that I can see I have a Spanish IP if I use ...
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Blocking all sites/IP address but Google.se with iptables
Im trying to block all IPs but Google.se. It doesnt work (Site does not display)
Here is what I wrote:
#/bin/sh
echo "Flushing IPTables..."
sleep 1
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F
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How to block subreddits with BIND9?
Please help me block NSFW subreddits like this one (http://www.reddit.com/r/NSFW/)
I would like to keep access to SFW subreddits, but block certain subreddits that are distracting or NSFW. I know ...
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Block multiple programs through Windows 7 firewall quickly
I know how to block a single program through the firewall quite easily, but I have to do this for several applications now and the process becomes tedious. Is there any way to block multiple programs ...
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Blocking a botting URL to an Linux server running Apache
I have a webserver running OpenSUSE 11.1 and I need to block a URL. The reason I want to block a URL is because it seems to have a different IP address all the time, but the URL stays the same.
I'd ...
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Are there any solutions that lock windows 7 so that a user can only access a specific application?
This use case scenario applies for example to a POS terminal, whereby once windows 7 is booted up, if the user logs in, he or she can only access that particular application. The user has no way of ...
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Blocking a contact in Windows Live Messenger 2011
Is it possible to block a contact in the new version of Windows Live Messenger? I am not seeing the option anywhere.
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Got a virus that i can't fix
i was using my computer then i got a pop up from my anti-virus avast that a malware attack was blocked then about 1min later a pop up on my computer (not from the internet) From a "Anti-virus" (it was ...
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Linux - What causes processes to block aka "disk sleep" on synchronous writes?
...as in, for example using dd to dump an ISO image to a thumb drive, or such. At the end of the transfer, the process doing the (afaik synchronous) write is left in 'disk sleep' status for several ...
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Will e-mails with reply-to addresses from domains you haven't the right to send from be blocked?
According to this source, you can only use from or reply-to from domains you have the right to send from, otherwise you'll find yourself getting blocked.
I thought, as long as the from-address is from ...
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How to block certain apps (say games) except on weekends (Windows 10)
I am aware that applications can be blocked using 'Local Security Policy'. But how to combine it with Task Scheduling. I cannot find my way around the Task Scheduler.
Any other workaround is ...
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code.exe blocked after choosing wrong option in update via integrated terminal
I opened VSCode for the first time in a while, and when I went to use the integrated terminal there was some dialog about updating or allowing a publisher.
I was in a rush and wasn't sure what was ...
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How to See Ad without being tracked by Google and others?
I want to know how Google,Facebook,etc.. know I viewed AD? Are they know it by pixels(like in emails) on ADS or any other way?
Let Me Clear What I want to Know Take
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Here I Suppose UMatrix is ...
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How to block url across a home Wifi network?
I am trying to block a list of urls across a home Wifi Network (like www.youtube.com) using open DNS. Since the router I am forced to use (Bell Home Hub 3000) has very limited options (it cannot block ...
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Block a Specific Program from being installed in Windows 10 [duplicate]
Is there any way I can block only a specific program/installer (e.g Bluestacks) from being installed in my Windows 10 computer? I want myself to be not able to unblock the software.
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How can I block (ssh) traffic from source ports other than a pre-defined one?
A VPS get lots of ssh attacks. Those attacks are various source ports:
sshd[76661]: Invalid user ts3server from 76.103.161.19 port 33062
sshd[76661]: Received disconnect from 76.103.161.19 port 33062:...
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Unable to unblocked the sites in Hosts File
I blocked some site in Hosts File, but when I tried unblocking it by deleting the indicated sites. I'm still unable to access the sites. Can anyone help me with this?
I blocked the sites by using ...
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iscsiadm hangs and tcpdump shows nothing
I am troubleshooting iscsiadm.
iscsiadm --mode discovery --portal 10.144.35.235 --type sendtargets --discover
The command mentioned above blocks and does nothing. I've cleared ipvs and iptables.
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Why isn't Ultrasurf hiding my IP address?
HELP! This is the first time that happened to me, neither Ultrasurf nor Psiphon3 nor Freegate are hiding my IP. Now, I live in Egypt and my ISP is TE-DATA, my IP is 41.235.184.188. And as u can see ...
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How to block distracting websites using hosts file?
Regarding the question, I've asked before and the feedback I received, I've done the following in order to block Twitter
I ran command prompt as administrator and I entered the code ipconfig /...
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Block defective RAM sectors [duplicate]
How do I find defective RAM sectors and where?
I have tried memtest, but where it does describe the sectors (if).
And how to solve them exactly. First, i have tried this : https://thecomputerperson....
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Bing and google blocked in windows firewall, still gets through
I have a set of computers here where I need to block google and bing. I ping google.com and bing.com which return some IP address that I add to my blocked windows firewall rules. Pinging these ...
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How to create a firewall rule, to block a website for a particular user? [closed]
can anybody helps me to make a firewall rule to block a particular website for a particular user. i have a Linux operating system am trying to make that OS like a firewall.
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How to block domain and domain extensions on Outlook 2010
I am getting everyday tremendous amount of junk mails. Some of the senders are as follows.
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
affiliate@...
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How to block all but a specific list of IP addresses on a given port using IPSEC on Windows?
I have a list of IP addresses.
L={x.x.x.x,y.y.y.y,...etc}
I want to block all IP addresses except for the ones in the above list.
How to do using IPSEC commands in windows machine?
I tried to ...
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Is it true that http requests via proxy cannot be detected and blocked by the target server? [closed]
In the situation in which a server A sends http requests via php under proxy to server B is it real that server B can't know that the requests are sent by a proxy? And if server B administrator is ...
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How to enforce blocking of sites if Opera is installed?
With Opera Turbo active, sites blocked in etc/hosts can be still visited. (Turbo takes their content from Opera servers.) It there a way to create
(1) blacklist of sites (not editable by users) ...
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How to forward blocked ports by ISP
So I've been trying to setup a TeamSpeak 3 server on my pc but ports (9987,10011,30033) are blocked by my ISP, I've contacted them to unblock them but they didn't accept, and it's the fastest ISP in ...
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Blocking Facebook in a system [duplicate]
Is there any possibility to block facebook on a user system without configuring through the server ? is there any coding to be added in somewhere or can we block through a browser ?
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Website that is blocked at router / modem level still accesable
I've blocked several websites at a router / modem level (not sure which one as we have an all in one router / modem - which is a BT 2Wire unit) most of the blocks work fine, but some of the websites ...
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How to avoid a skype block by internet provider
Maybe this question could look a bit dodgy: I'm in the need of using Skype for an online meeting.
However I've discovered that starting from this year my IP won't allow Skype connections anymore (...
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How do I disconnect various connections from svchost.exe
Resource monitor shows that svchost.exe is connecting to various unneeded locations. How do I disconnect those? I added those addresses to my block list in the Comodo Firewall, but it does not help ...
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How can i block games running on local machine?
Is there any way to block for running games (example; PES, Max Payne etc.) on user's local machine in intranet?
Thank you in advance.
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How to prevent people not in my contact list from chatting with me
I am using Windows 7 and someone who is not in my Windows Messenger contact list has been harassing me with sexual requests. This is most irritating and I had searched everywhere for ways to totally ...
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Allow all websites for administrator account and block all websites (but a few) for limited accounts
At my work we have a PC which runs Windows XP and is used by all employees. This PC is mainly used for our company website: a trailer booking website. At the moment there is one account: an ...
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How to block gTalk on any workstation
I want to block the "Google Talk" application on a workstation, without uninstalling it.
How do I do that?
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Block access to web site during certain times, at the computer level, no access to router
I need to block access to certain websites during certain time. For example I want to block www.example.com from 0600 - 2000. The settings should be password protected. If I could redirect them to ...
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Block all outgoing connection attempts as per application via ipfw
I need to block all outgoing connection attempts made by a particular app in order to prevent it from downloading updates automatically via ipfw?
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Block incoming traffic from specific ip address
How do I block incoming connections from a specific IP address in Windows XP without installing a firewall?
I've found this: http://www.ehow.com/how_5038640_block-ip-address-windows-xp.html
But I can'...
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Game server - How can I block connections from other countries?
I have a small server at home that I plan on putting a few game servers on, but I want to make sure only people from my country can join it.
Is it possible to filter connection attempts to my server ...
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Yahoo Messenger IP range
I use PeerBlock (former PeerGuardian) and, as a consequence, Yahoo Messenger (actually Pidgin) fails to connect every once in a while; PeerBlock reports the access being blocked because the ...
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How can I block a massive number of URLs on Windows XP, without modifying the hosts file?
My GF is from a country X. She is now living abroad but is addicted to internet and often spends many hours per day on her laptop browsing "nonsense" information by websites from that country X, or ...
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ipset remove just one ip or subset from existing set
I have an ipset where various ip ranges are added.
This ip ranges are loaded automatically from a list of ips and ip ranges for blocking purposes.
I'm trying to remove just one ip or a smaller subset ...
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Is it possible to block a specific website for a specific network in windows 10? [duplicate]
Suppose I have two wifi networks N1 and N2.
My targeted Website is Abcd.com
Now I want my PC not to be able to access the site abcd.com when I connect to the N1 network. But the PC will be able to ...
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Stop Outlook from loading Image from internal IP
We removed old IP range from our internal network.
For example 10.1.30.1/16
Our clients are in 10.2.10.0/24 now. Server are in another /24 vlan
Signatures in Outlook have HTML code, loading image from ...
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No link to bypass 'Your connection isn't private'
Sometime trying to get to a site I'm getting a message about not private connection. On the Internet there is information that there should be link to a site if you unfold the message (click on the ...
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How can I find the website blocking settings on my router admin page?
I would like to block some websites through my router. Going through the router's settings I cannot find the page for it. As you see in the image below.
Any hints?
Model number: VX220-G2v
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Word macros suddenly blocked
I have a Word 2019 .docm file that contains a few macros that I wrote myself.
This file was "working" since several years fine until now. Today, I opened it and got a warning that the macros ...
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