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;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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>>>>
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>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
>>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
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