Wikipedia access problems?

Question

For any techs wizs out there, I have a slight problem accessing wikipedia. Every time I try to open a page from google or att seach it will give me a strange message. It say that it will start downloading something named whatever the title of the article is and windows stops me saying it is hazardous and whats going on is unknown (The "do you trust this website" warning). If I go directly to wikipedia and search from ther I have no problem. Also, some articles work and some dont. "Penguins" for example will open where as "Lacrosse" will give me the message. I wouldn't worry to much about it but I fear that I have a virus. McAfee and Malawarebytes doesnt find anything but I'am still worried.

Answer 1

Do you get errors like this with any site other than Wikipedia? Have you tried a different browser other than Internet Explorer? Is it trying to open a file with the extension ".php" that Internet Explorer can't recognize? Do you have your security settings cranked up really high?



I know I'm just answering a question with other questions, but if you do some troubleshooting in these areas, you might discover what's really going wrong.



To address the previously posted answer: The salary of the executive and deputy directors has absolutely NOTHING to do with a client-side browser infection, malware, spyware, or anything that might be downloaded to a client machine. If the Wikimedia Foundation wants to pay its staff with a certain compensation package, that's their business. If they don't spend as much as planned in technology areas, then that's their business. I have the choice to donate to them or not. On the other hand, if Governor Tim Pawlenty decides to cut funding for K-12 education, health and human services, and public safety, that is my business because I pay taxes.

Answer 2

Oh my God, how terrible! Has the President been alerted? permit's get the national take care of back abode so as that they can handle this disaster! call the purple go, too, on a similar time as you're at it! yet heavily, i'm waiting to get entry to Wikipedia only high-quality now, nonetheless I wasn't waiting to this morning. only to substantiate the browser wasn't only serving up a cached reproduction of the foremost web page, I regarded up Alberto Gonzalez (the two a ballplayer or the former U. S. lawyer conventional) and person:Cowman109. All those pages got here up only high-quality. the clarification in all probability has to do with the actuality that of the tens of millions of greenbacks the Wikimedia beginning place gets in donations, purely a fraction of a million is spent on technologies. heading off a provider blackout of an hour or so will by no ability be a intense priority.

Answer 3

Seconding GrimJack's suggestion and objecting to MyWikiBiz's theory, the viruses could have penetrated to your computer. You should suspect an infection once you notice something strange about your offline computer usage.



If there's someone to blame, it's the authors of those Trojan horses, not Wikipedia's staff.

Answer 4

Wikipedia has been serving up this problem quite a bit for the past few weeks. We see more and more people turning to Yahoo! Answers, asking why Wikipedia doesn't seem to be working correctly. My theory is that they are spending too much on the $470,000 compensation package for the Executive and Deputy Directors, and not enough on server maintenance.



Check out Page 9 of this report:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/4/41/FY_2008_09_Annual_Plan.PDF



Do you see -- they spent less than 35% of what they SAID they would spend on "Technology". Guess how much they spent of what they said they would spend on executive salaries?



99.41%



So, it would appear that after paying the executives, there wasn't enough money left over for malware protection. I have trouble seeing how this doesn't make other people sick.