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 <anirudhsbh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
<debastein(a)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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