Could be, but it wouldn't hurt to do a scan
of your system and find out
if anything is wrong with it.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <
debastein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not the techie here, but I don't
think its a malware on a system
per se. Reason being being, two different people have experienced it, same
ad also from different IP's, different locations though.
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Definitely Adware/Malware/Spyware/etc.
> Notice in the Screenshot, it says Ads Not By This Site.
> It should've been a clue.
> Do scan your system with a good antivirus [Free or paid doesn't
> matter].
> If your system is infected by anything, your data might be at risk.
> --Cheers,
>
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <
> debastein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I just saw that screenshot and remembered, even my friend said, it
>> was by the same site, inkfruit. Some common issue??
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay <
>> debastein(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me
>>> that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact
>>> made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a
>>> singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other
>>> people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not
alone.
>>>
>>> I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back
>>> to you guys on this.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta <
>>> apsengupta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman <sodabottle(a)gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
>>>>> wikipedia is here:
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=en&sl=pt&u=http://pt.wik…
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta <
>>>>> apsengupta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing
>>>>>> advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home
page). Here
>>>>>> is a link to a screenshot:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to
>>>>>> check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also
not
>>>>>> visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each
ad, there
>>>>>> is some text that says, "ads not by this site".
I've taken a quick look
>>>>>> through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward.
His
>>>>>> right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is "Tata Teleservices
>>>>>> Maharashtra Ltd". His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was,
while he
>>>>>> accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address
since I'm
>>>>>> sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted
to Mumbai;
>>>>>> since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it
(though I
>>>>>> understand this is fairly common).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this:
>>>>>>
http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Combo&utm_mediu…mpaign=Combo.
>>>>>> I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit
since the campaign
>>>>>> data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also,
I'm not
>>>>>> sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've copied my friend here in case there are further
questions he
>>>>>> could help answer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his
>>>>>> machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of
the
>>>>>> issue?
>>>>>>
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