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Experts: BBC's plan to block Net access unworkable
News The BBC's plan to block UK access to its international news site has been greeted with a mixture of criticism and derision from experts. French Nazi auction trial says "it is not possible" to block users geographically.
[February 1, 2001, 10:05]
Yahoo! UK to block access to US chatrooms
News has changed its UK Instant Messenger client to block access to adult chatrooms based in the US. The US version of the software, which anyone can access, will remain unchanged and users will still be able to get on to adult chatrooms based in the UK
[February 12, 2001, 14:59]
Pirate Bay told to block Netherlands access
News A Dutch court has ruled in favour of antipiracy foundation Brein, giving three of The Pirate Bay's co-founders 10 days to block traffic to and from the Netherlands, effectively revoking access to its residents.
[July 31, 2009, 9:31]
Using the Enterprise Library Data Access Block for .NET 2.0
White Papers For example, every data-driven application requires access to a database. ADO.NET provides many rich features that can be used to retrieve and display data in a number of ways, but even given such flexibility, sometimes developers find themselves...
[July 2, 2007, 1:00]
EMusic wants Napster users banished
News Embattled MP3 site EMusic.com has asked Napster to block access to 600 of its users who have supposedly been trading EMusic tunes illegally through the controversial file-swapping application. A Napster spokeswoman said the company gets requests to...
[November 30, 2000, 9:47]
Aussie ISPs held responsible for content
News Not only that, the regime will require local ISPs to block access to undesirable non-Australian sites -- a move that puts Australia in step with the online censorship practices of China and Singapore.
[March 23, 1999, 7:48]
MSN Messenger hit by virus, outage
Talkback I'd like to pass this info down to you- get rid of it as follows: block its access to the internet through your firewall if possible.then just use control+alt+delete if you highlight it when you block its access, look for im names on process end...
[June 10, 2006, 22:32]
Be prepared to pay for security
Talkback They could block access to the Internet to those customers of theirs of which is determined that there PC is infected. They could block access to proven phishing web sites. They could block well known attack ports (e.g.and 445) that are not common...
[August 25, 2005, 21:58]
IMterrupt Professional
Downloads A simple password that you set gives you the ability to block access to chat, web sites and file sharing all of the time, or according to a schedule of your choosing. IMterrupt Professional is quickly and easily installed directly onto your...
[May 6, 2006, 8:00]
Parliament to discuss child porn regulations
Talkback What else will they block access too? Will an ISP block access for instance to companies, that they don't deal with, therefore guiding users only to their own, or affliated companies, or websites that have paid them?
[July 29, 2005, 14:50]
Report: China wants censorship software on PCs
News The software, called Green Dam-Youth Escort, would block access to banned websites by connecting to a regularly updated database of banned sites and block access to those addresses, according to the report.
[June 8, 2009, 9:16]
Net attack flops, but threat persists
News A flood of such data can block access to servers by clogging bottlenecks in the network infrastructure, thus preventing legitimate data from reaching its destination. However, ICMP data is not essential to network administration, and many servers...
[October 24, 2002, 9:42]
Kazaa forced to block search terms
News The record companies have a list of 10,000 keywords they want Kazaa to block user access to, according to counsel for the record companies, Tony Bannon, who described the 3,000 measure as "woefully inadequate".
[November 25, 2005, 8:35]
Internet addicts surf on work time
News While 78 percent of employers block employee access to pornography, only 47 percent block access to gambling sites, 20 percent block shopping and auction sites and 4 percent block news. The survey revealed that 67 percent of workers access news...
[August 23, 2002, 9:39]
Yahoo! defends itself over Nazi auctions
News In order to render access impossible we would have had to identify the geographical location of individuals, indentify whether material was racist and then block access," says a Yahoo! If the French court understood the Internet it would realise...
[July 24, 2000, 16:21]
Yahoo! ads will know where you are
News must completely block French citizens' access to online auctions of Nazi items on its US-based site or face fines of $14,000 per day. Geographic tracking techniques figure strongly in the case because they can help determine a visitor's origin...
[June 28, 2001, 10:35]
Safe Surfing test proposed to protect kids
News Currently many of the filters available to schools block access to such rooms. It is clear that a lot of filters in their current form are unsatisfactory as they over-block new content. The report seems to believe that filtering software is bound...
[January 30, 2001, 15:36]
Norton Internet Security 2002 review
Reviews We had to manually recreate them in 2002 -- a tedious chore that involved entering IP addresses of sites and computers we either needed to permanently block or to allow access to our PC. NIS also features tools that block Web banner ads (though it...
[January 16, 2002, 23:00]
NASA site blocks out Brazil
News From time to time, when JPL security people detect hacker activity emanating from a particular part of the world, or particular subnets, they will block access until they get the situation resolved," he said.
[March 16, 2000, 10:54]
Secure clients with ZoneAlarm
News The first option allows you to choose whether to activate ZoneAlarm Pro's privacy control (Figure A), which allows you to block pop-up ads, banner ads, and third-party cookies. With ZoneAlarm Pro, most of the work you do concerns the up-front...
[May 23, 2002, 12:48]
