[WEB4LIB] "Hijacking" Websites

[Andrew Mutch]

I've read a couple articles about this and none of them has mentioned exactly how
one gets "hijacked".  I assume that the bijackers submitted their copied page to
the search engines so that once they were indexed, they would appear along with
the legitimate sites in a listing of search results for a site.  However, most
search engines return the specific URL of a search result - and those pages would
not include the domain name of the legitimate site, correct?  It sounds like one
more step of education for our patrons [whitehouse.gov vs. whitehouse.com].

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

"Absher, Linda (absher)" wrote:

> Interesting article in today's San Francisco Chronicle about hijacking web
> surfers looking for legit sites being "hijacked" (rerouted) to porn sites.
> Wonder what implications this has for libraries?
>
> Here's the URL for the story:
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/09/23/
> MN51775.DTL
>
> LInda
>
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