Blocking Yahoo Mail

pwilson's picture

Is there a way to block Yahoo mail on on end users PC's?

jharings's picture

Perhaps through a webfilter

Something like Websense for example, or another tool or process 'at the perimeter'. Application Metering, if that is what tool you were thinking of, can only block .exe's, such as IE or Firefox, which obviously you wouldn't want to do.

Jim Harings
Technical Solutions Consultant
Xcend Group
http://xcendgroup.com

XIANRAIN's picture

You can set that on the

You can set that on the firewall wall or local scripts of the users.

pwilson's picture

Can you rpovide an example of

Can you rpovide an example of how to do that?

pwilson's picture

Can you provide an example of

Can you provide an example of how to do that?

erikw's picture

Proxy server can do that

A proxy or ISA server can do that. There you can set a deny rule for yahoo mail.

Regards
Erik
www.DinamiQs.com
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mgarza896's picture

How about a single line in

How about a single line in the hosts file of 127.0.0.1 mail.yahoo.com?