How do I block MSN Messenger?

Read the article that everyone's commenting on.
Subscribe to the RSS Feed for comments on this article.

like the advice. Think my msn has been blocked - by my kid brother. But I am not a kid! I am an IT student for heavens sake, and I have no idea how to solve it. It's been some help. Put a smile on my face, where I had for 2 hours been sitting in front of the comp fuming on how to get around it.

No need to reply, this is just a comment!
-J

Doesn't even matter if you block it AFTER it's been installed on your computer. I actually deleted MSN for my kid and then discovered that if you go to www.e-messenger.net and log on THAT way you can get the MSN or other IM places without having it actually on your computer. What's a mom to do???

There are techniques to block specific sites: http://ask-leo.com/can_i_fake_the_dns_ip_lookup_to_test_my_website.html

and there are tools you can look into purchasing:
http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_keep_my_kids_safe_from_internet_garbage.html

*sigh*
the problem is the kids are just tooo good at learning. in a way unless you come up with an allmightly block anyother block you put in place will just make the kid better and better and pretty soon there better than you and theres nothing you can do, they might even go on to be a hacker , but it could be a good thing IT is a very good skill nowdays and if blocking stuf makes them better at IT then then do it, it may make be the base of there carrea as you can probaly tell im a kid my self and we are very resosfull and good at finding loop holes in systems and exploiting them (but not that good over all . for example my codeing is sooo bad)

you can put blocking software on but some software you can just system restore and the passowrds restet or software gone they can even uninstall it.
and if your saying "there account is limeted and admin is passworded. " most kids know the old tap F8 at start off and enter the main admin with no passowrd. and if thats blocked they can even get hold of a boot program that gets the passwords out of the SAM file and decrips it. were theres a will theres a way.

if you block the messenger program thers all these web messengers.
i have had first hand exprinses with my school and webmessgers for the past year and they still havent blocked them all.
my schools system is very strick even dos is bared grrr.
in the beginign there was
msn.webmessenger.com got blocked so then
emessenger.com got blocked so then
then we dicovered we could have (a big world city)-emesenger.ney e.g huston-emesenger.net
and that lastest for about 3 mouths of finding new citsy. after that we whent to
iloveim.com that got banned so we got
1xiloveim.com
2xiloveim.com
" " and so on untill 15
the all eventually got blocked
so we started using new ones such as
http://www.phonefox.com and http://msn.audiowatcher.com that had no mention of a im service.
those ons still at blocked to day and we still have a big bank of ways round blocks.

including ip adrees (there realy get blocked as it staff dont think they have anything to do with im services.

http://85.184.4.3/
http://216.32.66.235/

now we are at the stage when we use forgin sites
http://www.warpmessenger.com/
where the it staff have no idea what were going on.

i havent listed all the web messengers i know as i don twant to spoil your kids fun. but blocking them if they find out about webmessges shouls keep them at bay for about a mouth or 2 (good for exam times )

i dont even use the webmessngers anymore onse your kid gets good enought he wont ever i run throught a proxy i set up. and my friends has a VNP connection right to his home (but hes a bit geeky) and we are still very young and have much more to learn.
dont forget were the generation that have grown up are hole lifes with computers around us and learned from a young age so one day we will be better than you (or its likely.
if you block somthing they will get round it its just a matter of time .
anyhow

keep tuning your kids into computer marsters nd laters

Compare this to things like credit card fraud... no matter how much you change the system and tighten up security it will always be broken or compromised at some point, and while there is software out there to monitor and block activities on the Internet there is just as big an underground market for workarounds and services like webmessengers...

If you look at the root cause of all this, it becomes clear there are two main ramifications:

1) TRUST - a Company/School will not trust that people to get their work done, so they block access to these things for this reason...

2) CONTROL - A geeky systems administrator decides to block it to assert a level of control.

If you trust people with the Internet, they will eventually get bored of it anyway, so why have them waste their time trying to hack through all the security you spent hours reading up on and putting in place???

No matta how many times our school tries to block MSN we ALWAYS find a way round it I mean we found this website and it gave us more websites we hadn't tried before and yeah it dus improve our IT skills some of us are going as far as learning how to have MSN on our sites and changing the name every week so the teachers neva find out about it good luck trying to block it but it's neva going to happen

Oh yeah and about the different language ones ever herd of translating them thats what we do using an online translator

If only the kids would put that kind of energy into what they're *supposed* to be doing. Sigh.

Block messenger via registry even if reinstalled also stop autorun of msn

Set:
HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger\Client

PreventRun (DWORD) = 1
PreventAutoRun (DWORD) = 1

Or create and set the same values under:
HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Messenger\Client

my school's blocked MSN Messenger, how do I work around that? i want to sign in from any site as www.e_messenger.net but they block it also , give me sites that i can go from that they might not know them

To post a comment on "How do I block MSN Messenger?", please return to that article's main page.