I've been trying to get a copy of that source for months, so please send it my way as well. :) ___________________ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@wikimedia.org On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa....@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.gh...@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 <anirudh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay > >> <debast...@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. > >> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >>> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Srikanth Ramakrishnan. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > > -- > > ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! > web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in > Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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