Question about Lowend solutions for managing urls.

[rstockman at afpnet.org]

As we are surfing the web doing research we regularly run across urls we
would like to save, sort and catalog both for a variety of uses including
sharing among colleagues and posting to the web.  Any tips,suggestions,
ideas that would be freeware,shareware or at least low cost would be greatly
appreciated.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Wing, Robert [SMTP:Robert.Wing at sjeccd.cc.ca.us]
> Sent:	Monday, June 25, 2001 3:08 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	[WEB4LIB] RE: Browser Hijackings
> 
> Thanks Michael,
> You may be on to something... But the question remains, what can we do
> about
> it? Ask our DNS admin to flush the cache everyday? (I would have to ask
> around to even find out who that is and I doubt he/she would do that
> everyday.) Any thoughts on how to address this locally?
> Although it may have seemingly stopped for some libraries like Andrew's,
> we
> are now starting our 4th week of our browsers being hijacked.
> We don't get hijacked everyday, sometimes we go a day or two and
> everything
> is normal so it seems as if it has stopped, then it starts happening
> again.
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> Regarding the box that pops up, as the bigred.com web page is loading, the
> box appears and it asks "Would you like to set your home page to...?"
> There
> are two buttons, "yes" and "no"
> Selecting "yes" changes the home page to "bigred.com" in the Internet
> Options/preferences. Thus bigred.com appears when the "home" button is
> clicked, or the next time the browser is launched. Selecting "no" closes
> the
> dialog box with no change to the homepage. 
> As I mentioned in a previous posting, this box has been resized so that it
> is at least possible to see the buttons. At first when it would appear,
> the
> box was so big that the "yes/no" buttons were not visible on the screen
> and
> you could not even scroll to see them. Also, one day instead of
> bigred.com,
> we got two other web pages displayed (please see my posting on 6-21-01 for
> the text of those pages.) This seemed to indicate to me that an active
> "intelligence" was behind this rather than a virus/worm.
> Thanks for any ideas that you may have.
> Bob
> 
> Robert Wing
> Librarian
> San Jose City College
> email: robert.wing at sjeccd.cc.ca.us
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, P. Michael McCulley wrote:
> [snip]
> >You might want to look at this ZDNET article on home page hijacking:
> >	Online battleground--has your home page been hijacked?
> >	http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2689655,00.html
> >Perhaps this is some variation on the PassThisOn.com tricks noted.
> >Since it has seemingly ended, and mysteriously, some variant of DNS
> spoofing >or hacking is perhaps involved after all. The name servers can
> be
> poisoned >>with false cache data in some cases. If some DNS admin has
> flushed or reset >the cache, it (the redirects) would "disappear"
> mysteriously as you describe.
> >It still is puzzling about the box that pops up, and what "happens" when
> the >user selects to re-set their homepage (opt-in?).
> [snip]
> 
> Original posting by Andrew Mutch on Thu, 21 Jun 2001 
> [snip]
> >
> >"Just in the past day or two, I've had a rash of staff and public
> >browsers that appear to have been victims of browser hijacking.  When a
> >user tries to browse to an invalid domain, they are redirected to this
> >site:
> >
> >http://www.bigred.com/"
> >
> [snip]