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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