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;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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