Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
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Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
17-09-2007 11:58 PM
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My daughter should be doing her homework upstairs. But she's not. It's driving her mother to distraction...
I'm using a Netgear DG834G. XP SP 2. She's cabled in on Ethernet (wireless unreliable, so father scales sheer walls and crawls through attics with cable between teeth...)
I don't want to pay a fortune for some Enterprise edition of something that I don't need 98% of. (Like MS Office...
Please help my girl pass her exams....
Look, I'm sorry, but moving the machine down here is not an option. I just want this odious product unavailable for certain hours of the day. The router does an admirable job of blocking msn and bebo etc, but i understand that WLM operates in a different way...
I attach a jpg of the list of services I'm able to block via the router, what would be very helpful is an indication as to which of these I can reasonably block that wouldn't compromise normal web browsing, but would reduce the availability of WLM....
Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.
Andrew
Re: Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
18-09-2007 12:17 AM
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You can block any ports - not just those shown.
You define a new service (Services entry?) and specify whether it's UDP/TCP inbound or outbound.
You will probably need to duplicate inbound and outbound.
Then specify the entry in the Firewall as BLOCK.
If you are feeling kind about this it is possible to specify a schedule e.g. allowed in at weekends.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
18-09-2007 12:25 AM
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If that works then you also need to block http://webmessenger.msn.com/ which will be the next port of call, after that they usually have a pal that tells them how to use proxy servers, enjoy
Re: Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
29-09-2007 10:47 PM
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puddy
ps if you have wired the lan cable in to a wall/BT socket you can buy a device to lock the front of the box so she cannot plug the lan cable back in if you have pulled the cable out
Re: Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
29-09-2007 11:03 PM
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If she does not need the PC for homework then the only option I see is disconnect the cable as suggested.
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30-09-2007 9:59 AM
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http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/DG834Gv3.asp
I have no idea if it work with Windows Live.
Chilly
Update; Just checked, it kicked me off but I was able to sign back in.
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30-09-2007 3:48 PM
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30-09-2007 7:51 PM
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30-09-2007 8:04 PM
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Sorry I haven't been much help!
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30-09-2007 8:04 PM
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30-09-2007 9:56 PM
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It only kicked me off once, when I enabled it, the I was able to sign back in.
So `chocolate teapot`
Chilly
Re: Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
01-10-2007 10:36 AM
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01-10-2007 12:07 PM
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You specify a list of web sites (with wild cards).
It's only meant to have weak security in the sense that you can only access these web sites if you know a password. This means that you will need to manually intervene each time she logs on and is to be granted access to rubbish sites.
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Blocking Live Messenger through router... ?
01-10-2007 8:54 PM
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Quote from: PJ I blocked a number of ports and URLS- each time it kicked me off and each time I was able to sign on again.
Resiliant is one word for it.
That's because the netgear disables internet access whilst it reloads the firewall settings - hence MSN disconnects. It's not the actual settings that are doing it.
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