Problem with malware links inserted into a Ubuntu wiki article

Connor Imes rocket2dmn at ubuntu.com
Sat May 22 00:22:11 UTC 2010


Hi Paul,
Thanks for letting us know.  Since it is a public wiki, we can't
eliminate spam completely.  If you do find any, please remove it or
report it to us.  You can then alert the Launchpad team about spam
accounts so they can deal with them.
Cheers,
-Connor

On 05/15/2010 07:24 PM, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> After editing the article on the Atheros Wifi driver 
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Atheros), I discovered 
> that the article had previously been infected with a malware link to 
> custom-essay-writing-service.org.  The links were inserted by "Beckt", whose 
> Launchpad name search comes up empty. I just now saw that those links have 
> been removed, fortunately.  Nevertheless, I can see a persistent problem 
> developing here, and the community should be alerted to it.
>
> Paul Abrahams
>
>   





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