Aunt wants to stop her son using MSN all the time...

snow patrol · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:02

My aunt is fed up with my cousin not doing enough homework and spending all his time using msn to chat to friends. Unfortunately, he does need the internet for homework and stuff, but is there a way to completely disable msn/messanger on a windows xp pc, so that he coudn't use it even if he were to download and install a new copy or something?

Thanks!

sfx · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:05

Try here: http://www.plevna.f9.co.uk/ I have used this before. It also blocks Web Messenger too.

sfx

snow patrol · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:08

thanks, that looks quite good actually! Shame it's not free past the trial period.

Alternatively, i could block the msn port on the router?? Does msn have it's own unique port that i could block on the netgear?

sfx · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:12

snow patrol said:
thanks, that looks quite good actually! Shame it's not free past the trial period.

Alternatively, i could block the msn port on the router?? Does msn have it's own unique port that i could block on the netgear?

You should be able to block it. I am not sure of the ports though.

FeFiDoh · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:21

port 80 aint it?

sfx · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:47

R5Rich said:
port 80 aint it?

That will block all internet.

Nate · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:48

1863 iirc

SiHH · 13 Mar 2006 at 13:53

Windows Firewall ?

Dont let the son log into machine as admin.

sfx · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:00

snow patrol are you still about? I have just added you to my MSN if you come online I have something you might be interested in.

Cheers,

sfx

Otacon · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:29

I'd just block the Messenger server IPs on the router. No chance of connecting then regardless of what client he uses. Don't remember them off the top of my head (except 65.54.239.82 - which is webmessenger).

Snow-Munki · 13 Mar 2006 at 14:46

i'm sure on my router MSN has it's own entry.

And you can set up rules so it will only work certain times of the day and for certain 'users'

not 100% sure as at work at the mo, but that's on a D-link ADSL router.

snow patrol · 13 Mar 2006 at 15:14

the netgear d834gt doesn't seem to. If i block ports 443 and 1863, msn doesn't work, but neither to https sites, which is a pain. Blocking 1863 on its own does nothing.
Not sure how to block specific ips on this router...anyone know?

Otacon · 13 Mar 2006 at 15:20

When you create the firewall rule you can specify WAN side IP addresses as well as LAN side.

ns400r · 13 Mar 2006 at 17:40

snow patrol said:
My aunt is fed up with my cousin not doing enough homework and spending all his time using msn to chat to friends. Unfortunately, he does need the internet for homework and stuff, but is there a way to completely disable msn/messanger on a windows xp pc, so that he coudn't use it even if he were to download and install a new copy or something?

Thanks!

Better training from a younger age ? Tell him not to use MSN until he has finished his homework!

Nah, I would ignore her too.