Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-18 Thread praveenp
And this also: 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/17/wikipedia_click_fraud_malware_warning/

On Tuesday 15 May 2012 12:47:13 PM IST, Srikeit wrote:

Thanks! Already spreading the word :)

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-18 Thread Philippe Beaudette
There are something like 50 blog posts that pingback to ours, so this is
definitely getting some play, particularly in industry blogs.

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:03 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote:

 And this also: http://www.theregister.co.uk/**2012/05/17/wikipedia_click_*
 *fraud_malware_warning/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/17/wikipedia_click_fraud_malware_warning/

 On Tuesday 15 May 2012 12:47:13 PM IST, Srikeit wrote:

 Thanks! Already spreading the word :)

 Regards

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We've got an advisory up now:

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-15 Thread Srikeit
Thanks! Already spreading the word :)

Regards

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 We've got an advisory up now:


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-14 Thread Erik Moeller
We've got an advisory up now:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:04 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:

 I believe Aditya sent one when this thing first cropped up on this list.


Philippe is referring to the page source, not the screenshot.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread Nischay Nahata
Hi,

I  finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an
extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work.
As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the user. Maybe
we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without
permissions.

I have attached the JS file that causes this ad injection and also the HTML
code that is been injected. Also note that this extension not only shows
ads from Inkfruit or Jabong but RedBus.in also.


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phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send
 it my way as well.  :)

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div id=siteSubFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediacenteriframe 
replaced=true 
src=http://d15gt9gwxw5wu0.cloudfront.net/ssa/67/?zoneid=31768amp;cid=INamp;pid=1113;
 width=728 height=90 frameborder=0 style=padding-top:5px; 
scrolling=no id=z_31768_728_90_0/iframediv style=width:728px; 
text-align:right; color: #999; font-size: 9px;ads not by this 
site/div/center/div

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread Yuvi Panda
Thanks Nischyan for locating the js file!

I had a preliminary look, and it is not a 'general ad injector' - it
injects ads only into Mediawiki rendered pages (looks for #mw-panel
div), so I suppose this could be called a malware targeted at
Wikipedia.

I'm unsure of how we can proceed - perhaps contact amazon and see if
we can take down the cloudfront setup used to serve the ads? But I
think that's us entering into a cat and mouse game with malware
authors...

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I  finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an
 extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work.
 As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the user. Maybe
 we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without
 permissions.

 I have attached the JS file that causes this ad injection and also the HTML
 code that is been injected. Also note that this extension not only shows ads
 from Inkfruit or Jabong but RedBus.in also.


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

 I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send
 it my way as well.  :)

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread John Vandenberg
Lovely.

The JS loads this

https://d15gt9gwxw5wu0.cloudfront.net/ssa/175/?zoneid=

Which happens to mention the server...

http://www.rubiconproject.com/

which looks like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_Project

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I  finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an
 extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work.
 As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the user. Maybe
 we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without
 permissions.

 I have attached the JS file that causes this ad injection and also the HTML
 code that is been injected. Also note that this extension not only shows ads
 from Inkfruit or Jabong but RedBus.in also.


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

 I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread Yuvi Panda
Also mentions ads2srv.com, a quick googling of which shows that it is
used quite extensively in malware.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:05 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:
 Lovely.

 The JS loads this

 https://d15gt9gwxw5wu0.cloudfront.net/ssa/175/?zoneid=

 Which happens to mention the server...

 http://www.rubiconproject.com/

 which looks like

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubicon_Project

 On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I  finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an
 extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work.
 As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the user. Maybe
 we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without
 permissions.

 I have attached the JS file that causes this ad injection and also the HTML
 code that is been injected. Also note that this extension not only shows ads
 from Inkfruit or Jabong but RedBus.in also.


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

 I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread Nischay Nahata
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:


 I'm unsure of how we can proceed - perhaps contact amazon and see if
 we can take down the cloudfront setup used to serve the ads? But I
 think that's us entering into a cat and mouse game with malware
 authors...


May be we should inform Google that Chrome is being injected with
Extensions?
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I  finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an
 extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work.
 As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the user. Maybe
 we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without
 permissions.

Some discussion/complaints here about it

https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/y0AjBCrXgGU

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Yuvi, I also recall seeing it in Firefox.
I'll try and get a copy of the source when I visit a Cyber cafe this week..
Only those ads were using this: http://www.conduit.com/

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 On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I  finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an
  extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work.
  As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the
 user. Maybe
  we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without
  permissions.

 Some discussion/complaints here about it


 https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/y0AjBCrXgGU

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-08 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi folks -

I'm going to pass this along to Tim Starling.

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On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yuvi, I also recall seeing it in Firefox.
 I'll try and get a copy of the source when I visit a Cyber cafe this week..
 Only those ads were using this: http://www.conduit.com/

 On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:22 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Nischay Nahata nischay...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I  finally got hold of the source that caused this problem. There is an
  extension called I Want This in chrome which does this evil work.
  As per my investigation, this extension is not installed by the
 user. Maybe
  we should notify Google that extensions are been installed without
  permissions.

 Some discussion/complaints here about it


 https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/y0AjBCrXgGU

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com
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 Ok then can we not make the default version the https one like say google
 does.


This will not be a permanent solution, I'm afraid.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to be
involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad
injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of inkfruit?
For people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or
other websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware,
it would display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just
specifically Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit,
I'd really say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be
involved. If its a non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess
and inform others.

Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too
frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if you
see ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should
check your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that
Wikipedia has started ads.

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay 
 debast...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok then can we not make the default version the https one like say google
 does.


 This will not be a permanent solution, I'm afraid.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Ramesh N G
What if the malware specifically look for wikipedia browsing? From the user
point of view it can easily fool us thinking that it is not appearing on
any other sites but wikipedia.
On May 7, 2012 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to be
 involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad
 injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of inkfruit?
 For people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or
 other websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware,
 it would display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just
 specifically Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit,
 I'd really say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be
 involved. If its a non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess
 and inform others.

 Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too
 frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if you
 see ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should
 check your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that
 Wikipedia has started ads.

 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay 
 debast...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ok then can we not make the default version the https one like say
 google does.


 This will not be a permanent solution, I'm afraid.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
debast...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to be
 involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad
 injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of inkfruit?
 For people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or
 other websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware,
 it would display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just
 specifically Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit,
 I'd really say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be
 involved. If its a non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess
 and inform others.

 Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too
 frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if you
 see ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should
 check your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that
 Wikipedia has started ads.


I don't think the enwp community will agree to acknowledge the malware by
putting up a worldwide banner.  Most of our users don't face this problem,
and the only problem devices are those which have been compromised.

The only effective resolution would be when Google and MS agree to patch
this up.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
The ads don't show up on https, ONLY on http.
It doesn't matter which browser you use, IE or Chrome. I use IE, Opera and
I see no ads, but several cyber cafes I use have these ads EVEN on Firefox,
and Chrome.

Inkfruit, probably doesn't have anything to do with this, I suggest you all
take a good look at a content provider called 'Conduit' who is the culprit
behind these.


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay 
 debast...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to
 be involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad
 injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of inkfruit?
 For people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or
 other websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware,
 it would display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just
 specifically Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit,
 I'd really say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be
 involved. If its a non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess
 and inform others.

 Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too
 frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if you
 see ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should
 check your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that
 Wikipedia has started ads.


 I don't think the enwp community will agree to acknowledge the malware by
 putting up a worldwide banner.  Most of our users don't face this problem,
 and the only problem devices are those which have been compromised.

 The only effective resolution would be when Google and MS agree to patch
 this up.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi,

Next time when anyone gets such ad, please take a screenshot and also
view the source of the page and save it.
That source will help find the source of the ads.

HTH
-Sudhanwa


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
 The ads don't show up on https, ONLY on http.
 It doesn't matter which browser you use, IE or Chrome. I use IE, Opera and I
 see no ads, but several cyber cafes I use have these ads EVEN on Firefox,
 and Chrome.

 Inkfruit, probably doesn't have anything to do with this, I suggest you all
 take a good look at a content provider called 'Conduit' who is the culprit
 behind these.


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
 debast...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to
 be involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad
 injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of inkfruit? For
 people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or other
 websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware, it would
 display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just specifically
 Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit, I'd really
 say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be involved. If its a
 non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess and inform others.

 Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too
 frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if you see
 ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should check
 your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that
 Wikipedia has started ads.


 I don't think the enwp community will agree to acknowledge the malware by
 putting up a worldwide banner.  Most of our users don't face this problem,
 and the only problem devices are those which have been compromised.

 The only effective resolution would be when Google and MS agree to patch
 this up.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread Philippe Beaudette
I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send it
my way as well.  :)
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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 Next time when anyone gets such ad, please take a screenshot and also
 view the source of the page and save it.
 That source will help find the source of the ads.

 HTH
 -Sudhanwa


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
  The ads don't show up on https, ONLY on http.
  It doesn't matter which browser you use, IE or Chrome. I use IE, Opera
 and I
  see no ads, but several cyber cafes I use have these ads EVEN on Firefox,
  and Chrome.
 
  Inkfruit, probably doesn't have anything to do with this, I suggest you
 all
  take a good look at a content provider called 'Conduit' who is the
 culprit
  behind these.
 
 
  On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
  debast...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to
  be involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad
  injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of
 inkfruit? For
  people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or
 other
  websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware, it
 would
  display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just
 specifically
  Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit, I'd
 really
  say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be involved. If
 its a
  non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess and inform
 others.
 
  Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too
  frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if
 you see
  ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should
 check
  your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that
  Wikipedia has started ads.
 
 
  I don't think the enwp community will agree to acknowledge the malware
 by
  putting up a worldwide banner.  Most of our users don't face this
 problem,
  and the only problem devices are those which have been compromised.
 
  The only effective resolution would be when Google and MS agree to patch
  this up.
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-07 Thread wheredevelsdare

I believe Aditya sent one when this thing first cropped up on this list.

From: phili...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:03:02 -0700
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send it my 
way as well.  :)___Philippe BeaudetteDirector, Community 
Advocacy


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415-839-6885, x 6643 
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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com 
wrote:


Hi,



Next time when anyone gets such ad, please take a screenshot and also

view the source of the page and save it.

That source will help find the source of the ads.



HTH

-Sudhanwa





On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan

parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 The ads don't show up on https, ONLY on http.

 It doesn't matter which browser you use, IE or Chrome. I use IE, Opera and I

 see no ads, but several cyber cafes I use have these ads EVEN on Firefox,

 and Chrome.



 Inkfruit, probably doesn't have anything to do with this, I suggest you all

 take a good look at a content provider called 'Conduit' who is the culprit

 behind these.





 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay

 debast...@gmail.com wrote:



 Hmmm...that maybe true but what else can we do, I mean, Inkfruit has to

 be involved somewhere in this right? Think about it, if you were an ad

 injecting virus, why would you randomly inject ads that too of inkfruit? For

 people who face these ads, are the ads appearing only on wikipedia or other

 websites also? If I am not wrong, if this is the work of a malware, it would

 display the ad on each and every website you visit and not just specifically

 Wikipedia. If its only Wikipedia and the ad is only Inkfruit, I'd really

 say, if nothing can be done via code, legal needs to be involved. If its a

 non-specific malware, just clean your systems, I guess and inform others.



 Rather, I'd say, instead of not going public with this, if it gets too

 frequent, go public. Display a banner on top of Wiki stating that if you see

 ads on Wikipedia that is not at all related to Wiki, rather you should check

 your system for malware. The point is people should not assume, that

 Wikipedia has started ads.





 I don't think the enwp community will agree to acknowledge the malware by

 putting up a worldwide banner.  Most of our users don't face this problem,

 and the only problem devices are those which have been compromised.



 The only effective resolution would be when Google and MS agree to patch

 this up.





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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-06 Thread Ashwin Baindur
I think we should now recommend increased use of the secure server
link for browsing wikipedia. Hopefully that will help.

Ashwin

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote:
 A friend of mine found similar ads inserted (screenshot attached).  I've
 asked her to run malware tests and an extension check.

 She also tweeted those dreaded words 'Wikipedia now has ads!'

 This can become quite an issue if the press gets hold of it.

 Any resolutions on the horizon?

 Regards

 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:24 PM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi Philippe,

 I would personally try to find out the extension and look into the HTML
 code it plays with but that will take a while (I am busy for few days and we
 have to see if the Ad shows up again). I will reply back in this thread as
 soon as I have something that can help.


 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Philippe Beaudette
 phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Nischay,

 We're looking into this one.  If your friend can spot the extension and
 send us relevant code, it would be helpful.

 pb
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 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi,

 One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia. Some
 extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of injection for
 such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good interest
 of everyone.


 On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 One can also see
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
 for clarification.


 Swaroop Rao
 (MikeLynch)




 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So yeah,
 that's a big market for spammers.

 anirudh

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia.
 Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.

 Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I
 personally never will support this.

 I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change
 browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has
 reported this issue.
 This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!


 User:Rameshng



 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 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
 debast...@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.gh...@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
 debast...@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
 debast...@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
 apsengu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman
 sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in
 portugese wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta
 apsengu...@gmail.com wrote:

 A friend got in touch 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-06 Thread John Vandenberg
It would good to know whether using https instead of http stops the ad
injection.  I'm not sure that it will help.

To help find the problem, we need to know what Internet Explorer
add-ons have been installed on their computer.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3892/manage-and-troubleshoot-addons-in-internet-explorer-8/

Recommend using Firefox or Chrome instead of Internet Explorer. ;-)

here is someone showing an ad injector working on Wikipedia in Internet Explorer

http://ipensatori.com/?p=521
(date : March 13th, 2012)


On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think we should now recommend increased use of the secure server
 link for browsing wikipedia. Hopefully that will help.

 Ashwin

 On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote:
 A friend of mine found similar ads inserted (screenshot attached).  I've
 asked her to run malware tests and an extension check.

 She also tweeted those dreaded words 'Wikipedia now has ads!'

 This can become quite an issue if the press gets hold of it.

 Any resolutions on the horizon?

 Regards

 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:24 PM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi Philippe,

 I would personally try to find out the extension and look into the HTML
 code it plays with but that will take a while (I am busy for few days and we
 have to see if the Ad shows up again). I will reply back in this thread as
 soon as I have something that can help.


 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Philippe Beaudette
 phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Hi Nischay,

 We're looking into this one.  If your friend can spot the extension and
 send us relevant code, it would be helpful.

 pb
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 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Hi,

 One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia. Some
 extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of injection for
 such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good 
 interest
 of everyone.


 On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 One can also see
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
 for clarification.


 Swaroop Rao
 (MikeLynch)




 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So yeah,
 that's a big market for spammers.

 anirudh

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia.
 Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.

 Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I
 personally never will support this.

 I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change
 browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has
 reported this issue.
 This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!


 User:Rameshng



 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 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
 debast...@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.gh...@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
 debast...@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
 debast...@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
 apsengu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman
 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-06 Thread Srikeit
The screenshot shows that the person is using Chrome so I don't think the
IE point stands here.

The ads also seem to be intermittent, my friend cannot see them anymore.
Usage of https may resolve the problem, but looking for a solution with the
normal Wikipedia may be necessary as several people wouldn't want to bother
with using https.

Regards

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:

 It would good to know whether using https instead of http stops the ad
 injection.  I'm not sure that it will help.

 To help find the problem, we need to know what Internet Explorer
 add-ons have been installed on their computer.


 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3892/manage-and-troubleshoot-addons-in-internet-explorer-8/

 Recommend using Firefox or Chrome instead of Internet Explorer. ;-)

 here is someone showing an ad injector working on Wikipedia in Internet
 Explorer

 http://ipensatori.com/?p=521
 (date : March 13th, 2012)


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I think we should now recommend increased use of the secure server
  link for browsing wikipedia. Hopefully that will help.
 
  Ashwin
 
  On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote:
  A friend of mine found similar ads inserted (screenshot attached).  I've
  asked her to run malware tests and an extension check.
 
  She also tweeted those dreaded words 'Wikipedia now has ads!'
 
  This can become quite an issue if the press gets hold of it.
 
  Any resolutions on the horizon?
 
  Regards
 
  On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:24 PM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi Philippe,
 
  I would personally try to find out the extension and look into the HTML
  code it plays with but that will take a while (I am busy for few days
 and we
  have to see if the Ad shows up again). I will reply back in this
 thread as
  soon as I have something that can help.
 
 
  On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Philippe Beaudette
  phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
  Hi Nischay,
 
  We're looking into this one.  If your friend can spot the extension
 and
  send us relevant code, it would be helpful.
 
  pb
  ___
  Philippe Beaudette
  Director, Community Advocacy
  Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
 
  415-839-6885, x 6643
 
  phili...@wikimedia.org
 
 
 
  On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia.
 Some
  extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of
 injection for
  such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good
 interest
  of everyone.
 
 
  On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com
 
  wrote:
 
  One can also see
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
  for clarification.
 
 
  Swaroop Rao
  (MikeLynch)
 
 
 
 
  On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So
 yeah,
  that's a big market for spammers.
 
  anirudh
 
  On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia.
  Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.
 
  Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though
 I
  personally never will support this.
 
  I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change
  browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple
 people has
  reported this issue.
  This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!
 
 
  User:Rameshng
 
 
 
  On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
  parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  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
  debast...@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.gh...@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
  debast...@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
  debast...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune
 told
  me that Wikipedia had 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-06 Thread philippe
The solution is to remove the malware. The project can't fix something that 
exists on the end users computer. I will renew my plea for anyone who can get 
the code of this thing to send it to Tim Starling. 

PB
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-06 Thread John Vandenberg
Sorry Srikeit!  I did assume it was Internet Explorer because I
foolishly didnt believe that Google Chrome allows ad injection!?
apparently it does...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9960350/inject-advertisements-in-pages

however they must be clearly marked.

ads must be outside the page's normal flow and clearly state which
extension they are bundled with

I think it would be useful to inform Google of this, as it breaks their policy.

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote:
 The screenshot shows that the person is using Chrome so I don't think the IE
 point stands here.

 The ads also seem to be intermittent, my friend cannot see them anymore.
 Usage of https may resolve the problem, but looking for a solution with the
 normal Wikipedia may be necessary as several people wouldn't want to bother
 with using https.

 Regards


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:56 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote:

 It would good to know whether using https instead of http stops the ad
 injection.  I'm not sure that it will help.

 To help find the problem, we need to know what Internet Explorer
 add-ons have been installed on their computer.


 http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3892/manage-and-troubleshoot-addons-in-internet-explorer-8/

 Recommend using Firefox or Chrome instead of Internet Explorer. ;-)

 here is someone showing an ad injector working on Wikipedia in Internet
 Explorer

 http://ipensatori.com/?p=521
 (date : March 13th, 2012)


 On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I think we should now recommend increased use of the secure server
  link for browsing wikipedia. Hopefully that will help.
 
  Ashwin
 
  On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Srikeit srik...@gmail.com wrote:
  A friend of mine found similar ads inserted (screenshot attached).
  I've
  asked her to run malware tests and an extension check.
 
  She also tweeted those dreaded words 'Wikipedia now has ads!'
 
  This can become quite an issue if the press gets hold of it.
 
  Any resolutions on the horizon?
 
  Regards
 
  On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:24 PM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi Philippe,
 
  I would personally try to find out the extension and look into the
  HTML
  code it plays with but that will take a while (I am busy for few days
  and we
  have to see if the Ad shows up again). I will reply back in this
  thread as
  soon as I have something that can help.
 
 
  On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Philippe Beaudette
  phili...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
  Hi Nischay,
 
  We're looking into this one.  If your friend can spot the extension
  and
  send us relevant code, it would be helpful.
 
  pb
  ___
  Philippe Beaudette
  Director, Community Advocacy
  Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
 
  415-839-6885, x 6643
 
  phili...@wikimedia.org
 
 
 
  On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia.
  Some
  extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of
  injection for
  such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good
  interest
  of everyone.
 
 
  On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao
  raul.swar...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  One can also see
 
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
  for clarification.
 
 
  Swaroop Rao
  (MikeLynch)
 
 
 
 
  On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So
  yeah,
  that's a big market for spammers.
 
  anirudh
 
  On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the
  wikipedia.
  Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.
 
  Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though
  I
  personally never will support this.
 
  I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change
  browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple
  people has
  reported this issue.
  This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!
 
 
  User:Rameshng
 
 
 
  On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
  parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  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
  debast...@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.gh...@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 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-01 Thread nischay nahata
Hi,

One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia. Some
extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of injection for
such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good interest
of everyone.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote:

 One can also see
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
 for clarification.


 Swaroop Rao
 (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch)




 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So yeah,
 that's a big market for spammers.

  anirudh

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia.
 Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.

 Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I
 personally never will support this.

 I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change browser
 and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has reported
 this issue.
 This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!


 User:Rameshng



 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 
 debast...@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.gh...@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 
 debast...@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 
 debast...@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 
 apsengu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman 
 sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo.
 I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the 
 campaign
 data in the URL 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-01 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Hi Nischay,

We're looking into this one.  If your friend can spot the extension and
send us relevant code, it would be helpful.

pb
___
Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

415-839-6885, x 6643

phili...@wikimedia.org



On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia. Some
 extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of injection for
 such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good interest
 of everyone.


 On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote:

 One can also see
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
 for clarification.


 Swaroop Rao
 (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch)




 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote:

 Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So yeah,
 that's a big market for spammers.

  anirudh

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia.
 Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.

 Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I
 personally never will support this.

 I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change
 browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has
 reported this issue.
 This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!


 User:Rameshng



 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 
 debast...@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.gh...@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 
 debast...@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 
 debast...@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 
 apsengu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman 
 sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in
 portugese wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@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 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-05-01 Thread nischay nahata
Hi Philippe,

I would personally try to find out the extension and look into the HTML
code it plays with but that will take a while (I am busy for few days and
we have to see if the Ad shows up again). I will reply back in this thread
as soon as I have something that can help.

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

 Hi Nischay,

 We're looking into this one.  If your friend can spot the extension and
 send us relevant code, it would be helpful.

 pb
 ___
 Philippe Beaudette
 Director, Community Advocacy
 Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

 415-839-6885, x 6643

 phili...@wikimedia.org



 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:39 AM, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 One of my friend also reported seeing Ads of Jabong on Wikipedia. Some
 extension in the user's browser is most likely the source of injection for
 such Ads. Finding out which extension(s) does this will be in good interest
 of everyone.


 On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote:

 One can also see
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
 for clarification.


 Swaroop Rao
 (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch)




 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote:

 Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So yeah,
 that's a big market for spammers.

  anirudh

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.comwrote:

 I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia.
 Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.

 Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I
 personally never will support this.

 I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change
 browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has
 reported this issue.
 This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!


 User:Rameshng



 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 
 debast...@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.gh...@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 
 debast...@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 
 debast...@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 
 apsengu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman 
 sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in
 portugese wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@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
 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-22 Thread Swaroop Rao
One can also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F
for clarification.


Swaroop Rao
(MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch)



On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010.  So yeah,
 that's a big market for spammers.

  anirudh

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote:

 I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia.
 Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware.

 Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I
 personally never will support this.

 I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change browser
 and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has reported
 this issue.
 This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now!


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 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 
 debast...@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.gh...@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 
 debast...@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 
 debast...@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 
 apsengu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com
  wrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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
 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-11 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia
is here:
http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-11 Thread Aditya Sengupta
Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-11 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
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 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-11 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
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 debast...@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 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-11 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
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 debast...@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 
 debast...@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 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-11 Thread Aditya Sengupta
I'm not sure Inkfruit is even aware the DOM injection campaign is even
happening. Possibly a rogue advertising agency; or perhaps the writer of
the virus is using a regular ad-network's API. I'll wait for Kashyap to
comment though, he may be able to identify which agency/network is running
that specific campaign.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 20:13, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
debast...@gmail.comwrote:

 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 
 debast...@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 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

2012-03-11 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
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 debast...@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.gh...@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 
 debast...@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 
 debast...@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 
 apsengu...@gmail.comwrote:

 Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM.

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote:

 mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese
 wikipedia is here:

 http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns

 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta 
 apsengu...@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=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=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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