[KB2844] Block a website using ESET home and small office products for Windows

Open the main program window of your ESET Windows home or small office product.
Press the F5 key to access Advanced setup.
Click Web access protection and click Edit next to Address list under URL list management.

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Select List of blocked addresses and click Edit.

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Click Add and type or copy/paste the link of the website you want to block. To add multiple websites, click Enter multiple values, type or copy/paste the website links and select a separator for multiple values. Click OK → OK.
Wildcards and other recommendations
- Use wildcards (* and ?) to match multiple addresses at once. The asterisk (*) replaces any sequence of characters, including none. The question mark (?) replaces a single character. For example, to block all addresses from nk01.sample.com to nk98.sample.net, type nk??.sample.*
  
  You do not have to include the protocol prefix—if omitted, both versions (http:// and https://) are used.
  
  For more information, see the How to add URL mask Online Help topic.
- See the list of recommended domains to block.
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Click OK in the remaining open windows to save your changes and exit Advanced setup.

Open the main program window of your ESET Windows home or small office product.
Press the F5 key to access Advanced setup.
Click Web access protection and click Edit next to Address list under URL list management.

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Block all websites. Select List of blocked addresses and click Edit.

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Click Add and type an asterisk (*) into the input field to block all websites. Click OK.

For information on wildcards, such as the asterisk (*), see wildcards and other recommendations.

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In the drop-down menu next to Logging severity, select Diagnostic and click OK.

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Define the websites you want to allow. Select List of allowed addresses and click Edit.

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Click Add and type or copy/paste the link of the website you want to allow. To add multiple websites, click Enter multiple values, type or copy/paste the website links and select a separator for multiple values. Click OK → OK.

See wildcards and other recommendations for information on using wildcards to match multiple addresses at once.

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Click OK in the remaining open windows to save your changes and exit Advanced setup.