I believe Aditya sent one when this thing first cropped up on this list.
From: philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:03:02 -0700
To: wikimediaindia-l(a)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
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On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)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.ghoda(a)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
<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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