[Parental Controls: Can I enter *.* to block all websites?]

Wildcards are not currently supported here. This would work if you used URL management list in the Web protection setup, however, such urls would be allowed/blocked for everyone. However, we'll consider improving this for future versions (not before v9 service build 1).

 

Please do.  Such an ability is the basic tenet of a white-list strategy per user.  This is going to be a mandatory concept for parents of young children who should only be dealing with a short list of certain websites (wixie.com for school projects, learning sites, etc.)

 

I'll be investigating other 3rd party "net nanny" style utilities now.

[Parental Controls: Can I enter *.* to block all websites?]

Windows 7/64 Ultimate

ESET Smart Security™, Version 8.0.312.0
 

 

I was under the impression that the parental control blocking would work similar to the regular URL blocking in the product.

 

But when I X out every option in the "Web Content Filtering" tab, and supply *.* in the "Blocked and allowed webpages" tab (with an X), I am still allowed access to everything.

 

When I supply a specific URL (e.g. images.google.com), that does work, and images.google.com is indeed blocked.

 

I, like many parents, would like to block all websites for my child's login except a few accepted ones by me.  A very short whitelist.

 

I'd like the list to be similar to:

 

 

How do I do this?

 

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!