Kaspersky Internet Security users can easily block specific sites on all browsers of a computer system using the “Parental Control” feature integrated in it. Using Parental control, one can block any particular website and restrict access to sites belonging to categories like: adult sites, illegal activity, social networking, Gambling, Drugs, etc.

Follow the steps below to Block Sites using Kaspersky:

1. Open Kaspersky, go to Security and open Parental Control.

2. Tick mark ‘Enable Parental Control’, set user profile to ‘Child’. Now open ‘Settings’.

3. A Parental Control window will now open. Open Settings from the Child tab.

4. Under “Child” profile settings, open the Restrictions tab. Enable ‘Set Restrictions’ radio button and tick mark ‘Block access to web addresses’.

6. Click the ‘Select’ button and add the list of websites which you want to block. You can also block web addresses by category.

7. Click Ok on all open windows. Kaspersky will now ask to password-protect the application so that no other person can disable or modify its settings.

On completing all the above steps, specified sites will be blocked completely on all browsers of a computer. On opening the blocked site, you will get ‘Access Denied’ message as shown below:

Hope Kaspersky users will find this tip useful.

For users who do not run Kaspersky can use this effective method – How to Block Adult content/websites using OpenDNS?

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OpenDNS is most popular and reputed service which provides a safe, fast, smart and reliable Internet @ no cost. Besides these features, it also includes other major and advanced techniques.

OpenDNS provides maximum security, Parental controls and Phishing Protection. It’s the best solution for parents looking to protect their kids from inappropriate Web content.

Its Web Content Filtering divides Internet into more than 50 categories. This way you can easily block web content like: all adult sites, illegal activity, social networking sites, video sharing sites, P2P, Gambling, Sexuality, Adware, Phishing and much more..

There are 6 modes to choose from: High, Moderate, Low, Minimal, None and Custom.

You can also use ‘Custom’ option to block any required content. Just Choose the categories you want to block and Apply.

Manage individual domains lets you block any domain, just add the domain and select ‘Always Block’ option.

How To Setup and use OpenDNS to Block Web Content:

1. Create an OpenDNS account which is 100% Free.

2. Now go to OpenDNS dashboard and open ‘Networks’ option.

3. Then Add a network using your IP address. The IP can be seen at top of OpenDNS page. A small software, Open DNS Updater is needed to be installed to keep your preferences and IP address updated. Available for Windows and Mac OS X.

4. That’s it. Now open your network settings and choose from any of the 6 content filtering modes listed above. You can change these settings anytime from Open DNS dashboard.

Result – Now whenever you open any adult content/site or make searches related to it, a dialog will be presented as shown below

Disable OpenDNS –

If you want to disable Open DNS temporarily, just open ‘OpenDNS updater’ > Preferences > uncheck ‘Use OpenDNS on this computer’ and click Ok.

OpenDNS can be used to protect your home, small or medium size-business or an Enterprise network for Free.

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