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