Originally Posted By: eljefino
My work blocks facebook, and the section formatted for the embedded stuff shows an odd corner of an error page.
I was chagrined when FB was added here, as now I feel my IT guy is going to notice my (unwanted) furtive attempts to connect.
As an IT guy. He probably can see it. he also probably knows its embedded. but if you really want to kill it.. Open up a windows explorer window (open my documents or something) then in the address bar at the top where it says my documents put in "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc" you should see a "hosts" file , right click, open in/ open with notepad , you should see something like this.. # Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
at the end type in "127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com" so it should look like this at the end after.
# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
127.0.0.1
www.facebook.com
Then click save. Close and re open any internet explorer windows and if you try to go to facebook it should display "page cannot be found"
btw. do this at your own risk. if you edit the wrong file you can kinda goof things up