site blocking

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Have a embarrassing question…

is there anyway of blocking sites and their associated sites in the one action using Avast Pro
BTW your kindness when replying, would be very much appreciated as I`m a complete newbie. :-*

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Not really sure what you man by “associated sites”. Additional Protection - Site Blockings. (Blocks HTTP only at the moment.)

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what I mean is, is there any way of stopping the search engine from showing similar site to that of the original search.
My kids keep searching for free games on line and need to stop them from doing so

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There is no parental filter in any Avast product. Suggest looking elsewhere.

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NOt in need of parental filters but thank you any way!! ( will take ur advise and look elsewhere)xx

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Sentence them to Life on a virtual machine running Linux. Then let them search for free games. And have some megalomaniacal laughter prepared when they see what awaits them.

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You can’t block associated sites if they are not from the same domain name.

If they are sub domains (sub.domain-name.com) then I think if your URL mask could include all of domain-name.com and its sub domains, e.g. hxxp://*.domain-name.com (where xx is tt, so that dummy domain isn’t a live link) and domain-name.com is the domain you want to block.

You could try OpenDNS which has some controls over what type of sites they can access, but it won’t block searches, only trying to access some sites, malicious being the obvious as some searches for free anything are often just a hook.

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RFC 2606

2. TLDs for Testing, & Documentation Examples

There is a need for top level domain (TLD) names that can be used for
creating names which, without fear of conflicts with current or
future actual TLD names in the global DNS, can be used for private
testing of existing DNS related code, examples in documentation, DNS
related experimentation, invalid DNS names, or other similar uses.

…

To safely satisfy these needs, four domain names are reserved as
listed and described below.

.test
.example
.invalid
.localhost

  ".test" is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS
  related code.

  ".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.

  ".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain
  names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a
  glance are invalid.

  ...

  1. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names

    The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the
    following second level domain names reserved which can be used as
    examples.

    example.com
    example.net
    example.org

End of technical window. ;D

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Not sure what you are trying to say as inputting that into the URL blocking should block the domain and its subdomains but without the wildcard sub-domains wouldn’t match the URL mask.

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so that dummy domain isn’t a live link ← does not matter if it does not resolve by design. :wink:

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OK guys gettin a little to technical for me…
this is the one of the sites I wish to block (playfreemotorbikegames.com/) if you could give me an example using this site, it would be very helpful.

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a little of track but can`t help myself… (GARGAMEL360 - / Common Sense ver.2011 /)SOoooo funny

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The dummy link was for the purpose explanation on how the URL mask works and only in this topic, so that the forum software didn’t convert the full http mask to a live link albeit one that wouldn’t go anywhere.

It matters in that it looks weird being converted into what would appear live.

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You just replace domain-name.com with playfreemotorbikegames.com in my example above and change hxxp to http and copy and paste that into the URL/Site Blocking, see image, click to expand.

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David have already done what you have explained, including adding, .net .org (none of which work)
and that is how I came to find myself here.

thank you all for trying to help and goodnight :-*

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kiekie98,

For me, just putting playfreemotorbikegames.com into the site blocking menu and pressing enter adds http and the * wildcard at the end. This then prevents any connection to that site. (see image)

David, that mask doesn’t work for some reason…with that it still loads ???
EDIT: playfreemotorbikegames.com works…seems the dot (.) confuses things in avast?

[nobbc][nobbc][/nobbc][/nobbc]

Anything contained in that will not be parsed by the forum. (Any tags are ignored and posted in plaintext)

I use the BBCodeXtra FF addon with this added as a custom tag for use on forums (though I think you told me about that addon) :wink:

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Yes I use BBCodeeXtra, didn’t know about the [nobbc][/nobbc] option, now have it as a custom tag, the code tag would do that too but is messy so this is cleaner option.

The [nobbc]http://*.playfreemotorbikegames.com[/nobbc] mask in the avast Site blocking works for me I just entered playfreemotorbikegames.com in the address bar and used the Ctrl+Enter keys to fill in the http www elements, etc. and the site blocking worked, see image.

The Site Blocking automatically adds the final *, see image2.

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If you forget the www. and just have [nobbc]http://playfreemotorbikegames.com/[/nobbc] entered in the address bar it is not blocked.
A bug?

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I wouldn’t call it a bug, as the mask I gave is really designed to cater for sub-domains, if you entered [nobbc]http://playfreemotorbikegames.com[/nobbc] that should cater for the main domain and sub-domains.

The main reason I don’t like that type of mask is that it is possible to trap other domains with a similar name, [nobbc]http://www.myplayfreemotorbikegames.com[/nobbc], whilst this is extreme as I don’t thing in this case there would be too many close matches trapped.

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And that is what I said above :wink: (the edit)

The main reason I don't like that type of mask is that it is possible to trap other domains with a similar name, http://www.myplayfreemotorbikegames.com, whilst this is extreme as I don't thing in this case there would be too many close matches trapped.
I think this is about trying to find the balance, between blocking everything or some things...which can be tricky...