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Posted on October 11, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

BEST UTILITIES

By Deanna McElveen

Are you a parent struggling to keep Timmy focused on online schoolwork?

Are you a business manager who needs to bar Carl from browsing Amazon for fishing lures on company time?

There’s a profusion of reasons for blocking certain websites. Regrettably, many site-blocking tools simply modify Windows’ built-in hosts file, which is easily worked around. Fortunately, the folks at Sordum.org offer URL Disabler, a free and portable app that’s difficult to circumvent.

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.40.0 (2020-10-12).

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