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
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;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;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;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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