[WEB4LIB] Question about Lowend solutions for managing urls.

[Brad Thomas]

Reed

Try this: (from BUBL
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/i/internetresourcediscovery.htm )

MURL: Free Online Bookmark Manager (http://www.murl.com/splash/)
A free service for managing Web bookmarks, allowing URLs to be stored in a
password-protected environment. Favourite URLs can be organised in
appropriate folders, accessible from any computer with web access.
      Author: Murl
      Subjects: internet resource discovery
      DeweyClass: 004.678
      ResourceType: service
      Location: usa
      Last checked: 20000922



Regards


Brad Thomas
IT Director
Braddon Computing Services
enquiries at braddoncs.com.au
Creators of Ingenieum
www.ingenieum.com


----- Original Message -----
From: <rstockman at afpnet.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 6:19 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Question about Lowend solutions for managing urls.


> 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]
>