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Note: Don’t know how many times I have gotten a service calls on businesses about the office computers are been used on Facebook, well, the below article will take care of that problem and it explains real nice, better than I could…. Chron How to Block a Work Computer From Accessing Facebook By Grant; Reviewed by David Weedmark, MCSE; Updated June 03, 2019 Related Articles 1 Block Facebook in Ubuntu 2 Unblock the URL Filter 3 How Do I Block People From Using Facebook on My Computer? 4 Block Facebook in Windows XP When you find that Facebook or similar social media websites are interrupting your employees or negatively impacting your company‟s productivity, blocking your work computers from accessing Facebook is a step in the right direction. The steps that you take to block FB can also be used to block other social media websites. Blocking Facebook Through the Company Internet Router One way to block Facebook on all work computers is by blocking the Facebook URL through the company router. To do this: 1. Identify the IP address for your router. In Windows, go to Start, type cmd in the search menu, type ipconfig in the command box and click enter. The number associated with 36
the entry labeled gateway IP address is the IP address of the router. On a Mac, click Apple > System Preferences > Network > Advanced and locate the IP address in the TCP/IP tab. 2. Type the IP address of your router into your internet browser‟s search bar to open to your router‟s login page. If you don‟t have the administrator password, your IT guy or systems admin who set up your company‟s internet router has it. 3. Locate the content filter feature for your brand of router. It is usually found in the Firewall or Content sections, but if you can‟t find it easily, look up your specific router on Google to get the exact directions. 4. In the content filter section, add the Facebook URL to the filter. This blocks all computers on the network from accessing Facebook. 5. To be thorough, block the mobile Facebook, Instagram and Facebook Messenger URLs as well. If your business depends on Facebook ad spending, you may want to leave the Facebook Business URL open to access. Blocking Facebook Through the Windows Host File Another method that is a more tedious FB block than the router method is to block Facebook manually through an individual computer‟s host files. Since this method is manual, you have to follow this process on each company computer instead of applying a network block. To do so, follow these steps: 1. Go to the Windows Start menu and search for the Notepad application. 2. Instead of opening it, right-click on it and select the option to Run as Administrator. 3. When the Notepad application opens, go to File > Open. 4. In the File Explorer window, navigate to the Local Disc (C:) drive. 5. Click open the Windows folder, followed by the System32 folder and the drivers folder. Select to open the etc folder and elect to see All Files instead of only .txt files. 6. Now you should see the hosts file. Right-click the file and select Properties to click the check box and enable Full Control mode from the Security tab. This allows you to open and edit the hosts file. 7. Open the hosts file in Notepad. Scroll to the bottom and add a new line. 8. Type 127.0.0.1, press Tab and type facebook.com. 9. To ensure that the FB block works on all web browsers, add the whole URL next to it, like so: 127.0.0.1 facebook.com https://www.facebook.com. 10. Block the mobile version by adding the mobile URL, m.facebook.com, on another line using the same formatting. 11. In Notepad, go to File > Save As and select the hosts file as you did before. Click Save and confirm you want to replace it by selecting Yes. 12. To confirm the changes, go back to the command prompt and type ipconfig /flushdns to flush the DNS cache, where saved browser information lives. 37
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