JMH
Emeritus, Contributor
- Apr 2, 2012
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Visitors to Wikipedia who see advertisements on the site have most likely fallen victim to a browser-based [FONT=inherit !important][FONT=inherit !important]malware [/FONT][/FONT][FONT=inherit !important][FONT=inherit !important]infection[/FONT][/FONT], Wikimedia Foundation, the organization operating the website, said on Monday.
"We never run ads on Wikipedia," said Philippe Beaudette, director of community advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation, in a blog post. "If you're seeing advertisements for a for-profit industry ... or anything but our fundraiser, then your web browser has likely been infected with malware."
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...out_malware_injecting_ads_into_its_pages.html