[WEB4LIB] Re: "Hijacking" Websites

[Andrew Mutch]

According to the FTC:

"The defendants "mouse trapped" consumers by incapacitating their Internet
browser's "back" and "close" buttons"

How is it possible to do that anyways - isn't the browsers security supposed to
prevent that?

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

Brian Smith wrote:

> At 11:57 AM 9/23/99 -0700, 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.
>
> The FTC's documents in the website hijacking (webjacking?) case may be
> found at:
> http://www.ftc.gov/os/1999/9909/index.htm#22
>
> Brian Smith
> Assistant Head of Adult Services
> Villa Park (IL) Public Library
> http://www.villapark.lib.il.us/
> bsmith at linc.lib.il.us
> .. But writing only on my own behalf
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