Disturbing Safari Experience

[excalibur313]

Okay I just had a really weird experience. I was using safari (fully updated, tiger) and my home page is wikipedia. When I went, there was this huge pornographic picture. When I go back now or use a different browser I don't see it but instead a normal sized picture of a dolphin. Why the hell did that happen?

Actually when I visit I see this red font overlapping some other font that says treecutoff.jpg. I wonder if that is the file... So maybe wikipedia was hacked.

 

[Lixivial]

Wikipedia is notorious for having miscreants editing in obscene items. It's more likely than your Macintosh having spyware. I'm fairly certain it's not a matter of wikipedia being "hacked," however.

Just a miscreant playing a joke because, you know, it's the Internet. Thus a case can always be made for about:blank. As a matter of curiosity, what URL is your default homepage set to? If it's http://www.wikipedia.org, then there may be a problem, but if it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page then it's more than likely a miscreant.

 

[excalibur313]

Oh okay that makes a lot of sense. I was on en.wikipedia.org. Thanks for the reply.

 

[Sayer]

Welcome to the Internet, bub.