Allow only Specified Sites?

[Tireisias]

Hi!

I'm running Windows XP Pro with IE6, Opera 10, and Firefox 3.5. I'd like a solution for my problem which works easily with at least one of these browsers, preferably all.

I normally don't let my younger children use the World Wide Web unless they have some good reason. One of them wants permanent permission to use a list of sites which I will explicitly specify, which is reasonable. I used to know how to enter such a list very easily on the early versions of the built-in Internet Explorer content gadget, but in IE6 I can't figure out how to tell the machine to completely bypass RSACi checking and to use ONLY my hand-entered list.

Could someone please tell me how to do this in IE6, or suggest another solution which will make it easy to allow only sites from a hand-entered list FOR ONE USER?

Thanks.
T.

 

[Diancecht]

Set a non-existent proxy and add the webs as exceptions

Cheers,
Dian

 

[Tireisias]

I don't think that I could do that in my case. I want the sites to run through the real local proxy (Proxomitron) that I have set up for the whole machine, and I can't think offhand of a way to chain an imaginary proxy server.

I realize that I could set up a second copy of Proxomitron just for her, but it sounds like too much of a pain.

Thanks.
T.

 

[Tireisias]

Got it! (I think.)

Instead of running Proxo from the "all users" group, I think that I'll give each Web-enabled user his/her own startup link for Proxo, so that I can give the daughter-in-question her own .ini and therefore her own bypass list without too much trouble.

Thanks, D.
T.

 

[Sympology]

I don't want to sound like big brother, but why on EARTH are you using i.e.6. It's a security nightmare and well as an utter dog.

I know some corps have issues with in house stuff, but please, upgrade to at least i.e.7, even better i.e.8



Robert Wilensky:
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

 

[gigahertz]

Very easy to do with Windows Vista parental controls and also with McAfee parental controls. You probably don't want to "upgrade" to Vista, but the McAfee is probably a reasonable solution.

 

[kjv1611]

There are options like this built into most routers as well. Not sure if you can specify users on the same computer via the router, but I know you can specify rules per computer with at least some routers. That way, no software is necessary on the computer.