Social Network Blocker Portable

Because the Internet is a public space, it's filled with every type of info and content. This means that wondering in the wrong places can fill your computer with malicious applications that cause considerable damage to your computer. Safe content is also a threat, but not to your computer and rather work efficiency and this is where Social Network Blocker Portable comes in handy.

As the name suggests, the only effort you need to go through to start the application is extract it from its archive once the download is finished, since it's the portable edition of Social Network Blocker. This enables you to take it anywhere you go, while keeping the target computer in good shape.

Running the application might leave the impression that nothing happens. It works just fine, but it only runs as a service and you need to press a specific key, namely F5 in order to bring up the main window. For even more security, you're prompted by a password request, with the default one being “admin1234” and you can change it afterward.

Accommodation is the least of your worries, with the main suspects enlisted in a side panel, with color tags letting you know whether or not they can be accessed. A center area displays all blocked elements, with additional info displayed and the possibility to make the app run with Windows. By default, you can choose to block Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace and YouTube.

The overall process takes as little as pressing the mouse button with the cursor over the target item. Result is impressive and without adding anything to your web browser, access is blocked completely, with the page redirected to your homepage. What's more, even searching by the target's name redirects the results page.

More flexibility is added thanks to the support for some popular browsers. With a simple click, we were unable to access blocked items whether we tried with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera, regardless of their version. There's also the possibility to add your own sites for more possibilities.

Social Network Blocker Portable lives up to expectations by letting you block potentially harmful websites or those that keep you from working, with an incredibly little amount of effort. The clever implementation of features makes it compatible with various popular browsers so you don't have to change anything else, with portability providing even more flexibility.