On Mar 11, 2013, at 1:02 PM, Kevin Day <kevin(a)your.org> wrote:
We've once again been notified that our mirror of the Wikimedia images is
"hosting malware". A quick check appears to mostly be more newly uploaded PDFs
with one or more exploits in them, but there are also a few other media types that seem to
be similarly damaged.
I'm personally okay with ignoring it, it's not hurting us any, but ideally
I'd like to see things like this get removed. Many of the infected PDFs appear to be
arabic language documents that would be of interest to people critical of their
government, so the implications of what's going on here are probably bigger than just
random viruses getting added to files.
I'm happy to scan everything again and post a list of things. I'm also willing to
automate this if it would help (periodic scans and uploading a list of all questionable
images to a wiki page somewhere?) Anyone have any suggestions on what to do here?
Added info:
Previous thread discussing this problem:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/xmldatadumps-l/2012-July/000565.html
Bug filed about malicious PDFs from last time:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38113