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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, I know some of the 'gang' are on the docs mailing list. For those not
please be aware of the following incident and keep your eyes out for any
spam hitting let lubuntu wiki (or for that matter, any wiki within the
ubuntu family)

Regards,

Phill.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Connor Imes <rocket2dmn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with malware links inserted into a Ubuntu wiki article
To: abrahams@xxxxxxx
Cc: ubuntu-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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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