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Like Those Wikipedia Ads? They Mean You’re Infected With Malware!

The Wikimedia Foundation is warning its millions of visitors that if they re seeing ads appearing on any of the Foundation s Web sites, then their computer is probably infected with malware. The Foundation issued a statement on Monday clarifying that it never runs ads on the Web site for Wikipedia. Visitors who are seeing ads for for-profit firms have likely been the victim of a Web based attack, including malicious browser plug-ins, the statement reads. The warning comes amid other reports of widespread attacks from compromised Web sites.

Source: https://threatpost.com/those-wikipedia-ads-they-mean-youre-infected-malware-051612/76571/

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