[KLUG Members] Sinister Web Sites

Michael W. Holdeman members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:47:23 -0400


This might be a good place to start a discussion of filters for firewall 
machines??  Who uses what and how it works?


Mike

On Wednesday 10 October 2001 16:49, you wrote:
> I doubt it was the kids looking for porn but more likely them finding it.
> I recently miss typed salon.com and got saln.com, needless to say it was
> porn.  Anything is possible but Occom's(sp?) Razor would seem to indicate
> an accident.
>
> That sucks, I guess its time to have a talk.
>
> Ian Hodur
>
> Clothes make the man.  Naked people have little or no influence on
> society.
>                 -- Mark Twain
>
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Big M wrote:
> > --- dszalay@trendway.com wrote:
> > > I know this is somewhat off topic, but is it possible for a web site
> > > to
> > > "plant" a URL within your browsers history files? My wife discovered
> > > a URL
> > > for a porn site in the drop down box (in IE) on my kids computer.
> > > They are
> > > quite young, so I would be very surprised it got there intentionally.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > I always thought it only saved urls you typed in, but I've had websites
> > change my home page without permission, so who knows what somebody
> > might have hacked?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
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