Recently Wikipedia links have been redirecting me to a Spam Site

Recently For some reason, i'm doing a google search and click on a real wikipedia link which redirects me to 60minutepayday.com which is obviously a worthless spam site. one of the ones that make you click on 4 fu**ing boxes before you exit the page.

Is this a google thing or a possible virus on my computer that for some reason only makes this happen with wikipedia pages?

I have kapersky anti virus running all the time and recently did a scan and it doesn't seem to be a virus. i dunno...

just wandering if anyone else has experienced this with the mentioned website.

 

this is a normal :S

 

lol, i just googled google bomb and clicked on the wikipedia page and it took me to 60minutepayday.com again. wtf!

 

spam on wiki?

 

is this happening to anyone else? it happens to me about on about 10% of the wikipedia clickthroughs

 

May be a Adware got installed on your computer. All of the wiki links in Google are working just fine for me.

 

Wikipedia has a high PR,everybody wants to add their websites into, but it is very difficult to be approved.
Certainly,somebody writes some content pages in their websites that are related to some entries of Wikipedia, it is possible to add these content pages' links into Wikipedia.

 

its more likely to be a problem on your side otherwise others will see it happen too, check your computer again.

 

Its hard for me to tell if alot of posts on digital point these days are automated spam or just worthless trolls. wow

yeah, i'm guessing now that its all on my computer. Damn kapersky, what did i buy you for?

 

i googled for the terms what you mentioned and no redirect, it took me to the wikipedia site...maybe you have some infection, run a spyware, adware, malware, virus check

 

There's more spam for sure, lots of new users and scammers as well.

Wikipedia links work fine for me I think you may have spyware.

Well it looks like spyware, and is this you?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100111224941AADPqUC

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If it's not you, then at least 1 other person is having that problem. Post an example of a wiki article and we can see - if you experience this on every wikipedia page then it's definitely something on your computer. Try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple

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click on a link there if it redirects then you have spyware for sure.

 

it rather seems to be a problem on ur side ......check ur computer settings again..

 

You better check your windows host file there is something fishy in there for sure

 

wikipedia links works fine for me, guess it's an adware on your own computer

have to say tho, the idea is smart.. wikipedia is all over the serp's and redirecting those clicks to anyone site is just great

am sorry about you for sure, and hope you'll get rid of this spyware soon enough.. try updating kaspersky database it might fix the problem.

 

haha, no that yahoo answers dude isnt me, but its the same issue

all right, i'll figure it out, i was just kind of curious about the possibility of wikipedia pages being messed with which would be kind of funny actually. It definitely is interesting though that its just wikipedia pages...haha

i wont drag this thread out any more.

thanks er'body

 

I'm having the same problem. First i noticed it in the firefox search bar, but today i got it in a wikipedia link on a google search page. I have zonealarm internet suite set to scan for spyware every night, but i have tried scanning directly after I got the 60minutepayday link and it didn't seem to help. One thing that worked was going into the drop down menu in the search toolbar and choosing "manage search engines" then hitting the "restore defaults" button. But now the "restore defaults" button is grayed out. I looked for a place to report it to wikipedia but didn't find any place to do that. I'm not the one who put the question on yahoo either.

 

I checked my windows hosts file. Nothing special there. I think some adware program must change the wikipedia link on the firefox search toolbar and then change something in the toolbar code to prohibit fixing the problem.

 

I have the same exact issue under Win XP, Firefox 3.5.7. 10% of google search links pointing to Wiki sites redirect to 60minutepaydayloan.com

SpyBot and Norton AV find nothing wrong.