[WEB4LIB] "Hijacking" Websites

[Absher, Linda (absher)]

The article broadly explains how they're doing it:  they copy the coding,
including keyword metatags, then republish the pages on other servers.  a
Javascript program is embedded in the duplicated sites redirecting people to
the porn sites; apparently they also add coding making it difficult for a
person to shut down the browser software or surf elsewhere. 

LInda

--
Linda Absher / absher at sequent.com / 503.578.3485
Intranet Librarian / Sequent Computer Systems / Beaverton, OR
"The more I read, the more questions I have. Everytime I pass a library I get
an anxiety attack."  --SeaQuest DSV

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andrew Mutch [SMTP:amutch at waterford.lib.mi.us]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 23, 1999 12:15 PM
> To:	absher at sequent.com
> Cc:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Re: [WEB4LIB] "Hijacking" Websites
> 
> 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/1999/09/2
> 3/
> > MN51775.DTL
> >
> > LInda
> >
> > --
> > Linda Absher / absher at sequent.com / 503.578.3485
> > Intranet Librarian / Sequent Computer Systems / Beaverton, OR
> > "The more I read, the more questions I have. Every time I pass a library
> I
> > get an anxiety attack."  --SeaQuest DSV