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;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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