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May 3, 2014
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Has anyone else noticed websites being linked when they probably shouldn't be?

I saw one earlier today referring to the PS4 and it linked to a Walmart page selling PS4's

And another referring to Nike and it linked to the Nike website, I don't think either of these were purposely linked?
 
Has anyone else noticed websites being linked when they probably shouldn't be?

I saw one earlier today referring to the PS4 and it linked to a Walmart page selling PS4's

And another referring to Nike and it linked to the Nike website, I don't think either of these were purposely linked?
Ditto with an iPad one.
 

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So I feel like this has got to be on my end because no-one else has mentioned anything, but is BigFooty serving VigLink malware? I'm getting it across different browsers and different devices, and even on my phone, and haven't managed to proc it on any other websites.
 
So I feel like this has got to be on my end because no-one else has mentioned anything, but is BigFooty serving VigLink malware? I'm getting it across different browsers and different devices, and even on my phone, and haven't managed to proc it on any other websites.
I didn't think VigLink had been classed as malware. We have run it in the past for users not logged in. I will check out whether the tags are still in any of our templates.
 
I didn't think VigLink had been classed as malware. We have run it in the past for users not logged in. I will check out whether the tags are still in any of our templates.

It's injecting advertisement referral/affiliate links into user text, that's the second most common kind of browser malware behind search hijacking, and had me shitting myself worried that my computer had somehow gotten infected for a good half an hour before I determined BigFooty to be the source.

From old threads on other forums it seems like the script didn't always do this and was reasonably friendly (tech sites from as recently as a few months ago imply that it only converts already existing auction site links into affiliate links), but the behaviour I was seeing was far more malicious and intrusive.

EDIT: And considering that many (if not all?) of the referral links it's injecting are US-only I can't imagine it would even be a notable revenue source anyway.
 

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