Facebook blocker

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Introduction 

Sometimes it becomes ridiculous to edit your hosts file for just adding a list of websites that you want to block  on your machine .... for making a solution and making it easier to do this I have created a program that can edit your hosts file.

Background

For blocking any site you need to add code like 127.0.0.1 http://www.facebook.com at the end of the file and that becomes a ridiculous task to add it whenever we want to block a site and remove it when we want to remove it....

Using the code

We have three buttons: button1 for adding the required blocking site information into the host file and button 2 for removing added code ... and button 3 for exitting from the application, like this:

using System.IO;

//code for button1
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    using (StreamWriter tw = File.AppendText("C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts"))
    {

        //TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("date.txt");

        // write a line of text to the file
       // tw.NewLine();
        tw.WriteLine("127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com");
        tw.WriteLine("127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com");
        tw.WriteLine("127.0.0.1 blog.facebook.com");
        tw.WriteLine("127.0.0.1 apps.facebook.com");
        tw.WriteLine("");

        // close the stream
        tw.Close();
    }
}

//code on button2
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter("C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts");
    tw.WriteLine("# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.");
    tw.WriteLine("#");
    tw.WriteLine("# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.");
    tw.WriteLine("#");
    tw.WriteLine("# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each");
    tw.WriteLine("# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should");
    tw.WriteLine("# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.");
    tw.WriteLine("# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one");
    tw.WriteLine("# space.");
    tw.WriteLine("#");
    tw.WriteLine("# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual");
    tw.WriteLine("# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.");
    tw.WriteLine("#");
    tw.WriteLine("# For example:");
    tw.WriteLine("#");
    tw.WriteLine("#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server");
    tw.WriteLine("#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host");
    tw.WriteLine("# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.");
    tw.WriteLine("#	127.0.0.1       localhost");
    tw.WriteLine("#	::1             localhost");                    
    tw.WriteLine("");
    tw.Close();
    tw.Dispose();
}
// code for button3
private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Application.Exit();
}

Points of Interest

We need to edit file at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and the host file doesn't have any extension.