Blocking Yahoo’s Web Messenger From Domain Users Via Hosts Script
April 2, 2010
Management asked us to block access to all chat programs. Programs are easy to do with a Group Policy. However some of the web messengers are harder to restrict. Yahoo’s web messenger is very tricky to stop. However I found a way to block access.
Yahoo has a page over here on how to restrict access. Now you can go to a users pc that’s abusing their priveleges. And add the following lines to their hosts file.
127.0.0.1 webcs.msg.yahoo.com
127.0.0.1 httpcs.msg.yahoo.com
This will prevent them from using the messenger.
good luck.
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